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title: The rest of the king’s cavalry were not very numerous, but they pran… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest of the king’s cavalry were not very numerous, but they pranced along in armour on fine horses. Who acts: rest, ankles. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 9

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The rest of the king’s cavalry were not very numerous, but they pranced along in armour on fine horses.

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**Who acts:** rest, ankles · **What happens:** not be, prance · **To what, where:** armour

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, ankles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:16:9
# text = The rest of the king’s cavalry were not very numerous, but they pranced along in armour on fine horses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pranced	prance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	along	along	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the rest of the king's cavalry |  |  |  |  | numerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prance** | past | ankles *= ankle* |  |  | armour |  | on fine horses; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armour=Trajectory |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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