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title: The youngest again mounted the wooden horse, and rode back at full s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngest again mounted the wooden horse, and rode back at full speed to his beloved White Cat. Who acts: youngest. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 87

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The youngest again mounted the wooden horse, and rode back at full speed to his beloved White Cat.

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**Who acts:** youngest · **What happens:** mount, ride back · **To what, where:** wooden horse, full speed

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest), 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:pg503:23:87
# text = The youngest again mounted the wooden horse, and rode back at full speed to his beloved White Cat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | the youngest | the wooden horse |  |  | again |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 2 | **ride back** | past | the youngest *not said here* |  |  | full speed |  | to horse's beloved White Cat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to cat=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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