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title: Every man bridled his horse and mounted, the Captain put himself at… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every man bridled his horse and mounted, the Captain put himself at their head, and they returned as they came. Who acts: man, Captain, men. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 13

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Every man bridled his horse and mounted, the Captain put himself at their head, and they returned as they came.

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**Who acts:** man, Captain, men · **What happens:** bridle, mount, put, return, come · **To what, where:** horse, captain, head

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Captain, men), 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:pg503:34:13
# text = Every man bridled his horse and mounted, the Captain put himself at their head, and they returned as they came.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bridled	bridle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bridle** | past | every man |  | Ali's horse |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination |
| 2 | **mount** | participle | every man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | past | the Captain | captain |  | men's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at head=Destination |
| 4 | **return** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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