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title: So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode for a long, long w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode for a long, long way, and at last she came to the mountain, where an aged woman was sitting outside with a gold carding-comb. Who acts: girl, aged woman. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with i
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 72

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So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode for a long, long way, and at last she came to the mountain, where an aged woman was sitting outside with a gold carding-comb.

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**Who acts:** girl, aged woman · **What happens:** seat, ride, come, sit · **To what, where:** girl, last

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, aged woman), 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:pg503:4:72
# text = So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode for a long, long way, and at last she came to the mountain, where an aged woman was sitting outside with a gold carding-comb.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
34	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	carding	carding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past | the girl | girl |  |  |  | on the horse | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value |
| 2 | **ride** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for a long long way | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | girl |  |  | last |  | to the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | a aged woman |  |  |  |  | with a carding comb; outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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