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title: The waiting-maid now mounted Falada, and the real bride the worse ho… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The waiting-maid now mounted Falada, and the real bride the worse horse, and so they continued their journey till at length they arrived at the palace yard. Who acts: waiting maid, real bride, words. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 24

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The waiting-maid now mounted Falada, and the real bride the worse horse, and so they continued their journey till at length they arrived at the palace yard.

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**Who acts:** waiting maid, real bride, words · **What happens:** mount, horse, continue, arrive, journey · **To what, where:** Falada, journey, length

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waiting maid, real bride, words), 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:pg503:37:24
# text = The waiting-maid now mounted Falada, and the real bride the worse horse, and so they continued their journey till at length they arrived at the palace yard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Falada	Falada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	till	till	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | the waiting maid | Falada |  |  | now |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falada=Patient |
| 2 | **horse** |  | the real bride |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **continue** | past | words *= word* | words's journey |  |  | till length |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | words *= word* | length *not said here* |  |  |  | at the palace yard | tree rules |
| 5 | **journey** |  | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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