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title: When he was near the top of a hill he dismounted to let his horse gr… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was near the top of a hill he dismounted to let his horse graze, while Frisk amused himself by chasing flies. Who acts: man, Frisk. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 156

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When he was near the top of a hill he dismounted to let his horse graze, while Frisk amused himself by chasing flies.

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**Who acts:** man, Frisk · **What happens:** be, dismount, let, amuse, chase, graze · **To what, where:** top, horse graze, man, flies

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Frisk), 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:pg503:28:156
# text = When he was near the top of a hill he dismounted to let his horse graze, while Frisk amused himself by chasing flies.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dismounted	dismount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	graze	graze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	amused	amuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | man |  |  | the top |  | of a hill | tree rules |
| 2 | **dismount** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man's horse graze |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graze=Theme |
| 4 | **amuse** | past | Frisk | man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 5 | **chase** | gerund | Frisk *not said here* | flies |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |
| 6 | **graze** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom graze «state transitive»: poss=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 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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