--- title: But Charming said that he only wanted a good horse to ride, and the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But Charming said that he only wanted a good horse to ride, and the King, who was delighted at his being ready to start so promptly, gave him letters to the Princess, and bade him good speed. Who acts: Charming, king, good horse, bade. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/) / 42 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 42 But Charming said that he only wanted a good horse to ride, and the King, who was delighted at his being ready to start so promptly, gave him letters to the Princess, and bade him good speed. **Who acts:** Charming, king, good horse, bade · **What happens:** say, want, ride, be, start, give · **To what, where:** good horse, letters, refusal · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Charming, king, good horse, bade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:28:42 # text = But Charming said that he only wanted a good horse to ride, and the King, who was delighted at his being ready to start so promptly, gave him letters to the Princess, and bade him good speed. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Charming Charming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 21 at at SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 cop _ _ 24 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 promptly promptly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 30 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Charming | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **want** | past | king | a good horse | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ride** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a good horse *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | the King | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | gerund | the King *not said here* | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **start** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | | | | | promptly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **give** | past | the King | letters | refusal | | | to the Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient letter=Theme | | 8 | **speed** | | bade | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/43/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)