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title: Presently she heard the muffled tramp of horses, and soon the armed… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently she heard the muffled tramp of horses, and soon the armed troop appeared, led by the Prince, who had prudently marked all the trees beforehand, in order to know the way. Who acts: thread, armed troop. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, wi
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 40

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Presently she heard the muffled tramp of horses, and soon the armed troop appeared, led by the Prince, who had prudently marked all the trees beforehand, in order to know the way.

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**Who acts:** thread, armed troop · **What happens:** hear, muffle, appear, lead, mark, know · **To what, where:** muffled tramp, Prince, way

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, armed troop), 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:pg503:26:40
# text = Presently she heard the muffled tramp of horses, and soon the armed troop appeared, led by the Prince, who had prudently marked all the trees beforehand, in order to know the way.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	muffled	muffle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	tramp	tramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	prudently	prudently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	34	mark	_	_
32	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	fixed	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | thread | the muffled tramp of horses |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tramp=Stimulus |
| 2 | **muffle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appear** | past | the armed troop |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lead** | participle | the armed troop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 5 | **mark** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Prince |  |  |  | beforehand, prudently *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme tree=Attribute |
| 6 | **know** | to-infinitive | the armed troop *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |

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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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