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title: ‘Every day he passes along here, mounted on a black mare, with a col… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Every day he passes along here, mounted on a black mare, with a colt thirteen months old trotting behind. Who acts: magician. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 80

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‘Every day he passes along here, mounted on a black mare, with a colt thirteen months old trotting behind.

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**Who acts:** magician · **What happens:** pass, mount · **To what, where:** old trotting

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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:pg3454:26:80
# text = ‘Every day he passes along here, mounted on a black mare, with a colt thirteen months old trotting behind.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	thirteen	thirteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	trotting	trotting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | magician |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along here=Location |
| 2 | **mount** | participle | magician *not said here* | old trotting with thirteen months |  |  |  | on a black mare | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on mare=Destination |

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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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