--- title: One day when he had started at the very earliest dawn, and was ridin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day when he had started at the very earliest dawn, and was riding over a great meadow, he suddenly had a capital idea, and, springing from his horse, he sat down under a willow tree which grew by a little river. Who acts: king, willow tree. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/45/) [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/) / 45 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 45 One day when he had started at the very earliest dawn, and was riding over a great meadow, he suddenly had a capital idea, and, springing from his horse, he sat down under a willow tree which grew by a little river. **Who acts:** king, willow tree · **What happens:** start, ride, have, spring, sit down, grow · **To what, where:** great meadow, capital idea, willow tree 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 (king, willow tree), 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:pg503:28:45 # text = One day when he had started at the very earliest dawn, and was riding over a great meadow, he suddenly had a capital idea, and, springing from his horse, he sat down under a willow tree which grew by a little river. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 earliest early ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 springing spring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 under under ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past · perfect | king | | | | dawn; day | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **ride** | past · progressive | king *not said here* | | | a great meadow | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over meadow=Trajectory | | 3 | **have** | past | king | a capital idea | | | | suddenly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 4 | **spring** | gerund | king *not said here* | | | | | from king's horse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory | | 5 | **sit down** | past | king | | | a willow tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | | 6 | **grow** | past | a willow tree | | | | | by a little river | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/46/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)