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title: Here the knight dashed across the bridge that spanned the moat, and… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the knight dashed across the bridge that spanned the moat, and entered the gate, but as soon as he was safe inside, the drawbridge was pulled up and caught Owen’s horse in the middle, so that half of him was inside and half out, and Owen could not dismount and knew not what to do. Who acts: kni
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 79

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Here the knight dashed across the bridge that spanned the moat, and entered the gate, but as soon as he was safe inside, the drawbridge was pulled up and caught Owen’s horse in the middle, so that half of him was inside and half out, and Owen could not dismount and knew not what to do.

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**Who acts:** knight, bridge, blow, half, Owen · **What happens:** dash, span, enter, be, pull up, catch · **To what, where:** bridge, moat, gate, drawbridge, horse, middle

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, bridge, blow, half), 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:pg3454:30:79
# text = Here the knight dashed across the bridge that spanned the moat, and entered the gate, but as soon as he was safe inside, the drawbridge was pulled up and caught Owen’s horse in the middle, so that half of him was inside and half out, and Owen could not dismount and knew not what to do.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spanned	span	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
25	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
42	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
43	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	47	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	50	advmod	_	_
50	out	out	ADV	RB	_	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	dismount	dismount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	conj	_	_
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
60	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	58	ccomp	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | past | the knight |  |  | the bridge; here |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across bridge=Trajectory |
| 2 | **span** | past | the bridge | the moat |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moat=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **enter** | past | the knight *not said here* | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | blow |  |  |  |  | inside, safe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pull up** | past · passive |  | the drawbridge |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **catch** | past | the knight *not said here* | Owen's horse |  | the middle |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | that half of blow |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **dismount** | could | Owen |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **not** **know** | past | Owen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **do** | to-infinitive | Owen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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