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title: Fifteen hundred of the Emperor’s largest horses, each about four inc… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fifteen hundred of the Emperor’s largest horses, each about four inches and a half high, were then employed to draw me toward the capital. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 61

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Fifteen hundred of the Emperor’s largest horses, each about four inches and a half high, were then employed to draw me toward the capital.

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**What happens:** employ, draw · **To what, where:** Fifteen hundred, me

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:43:61
# text = Fifteen hundred of the Emperor’s largest horses, each about four inches and a half high, were then employed to draw me toward the capital.
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	conj	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past · passive |  | Fifteen hundred |  |  | then | of the Emperor's largest horses and each four inches and a half | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **draw** | to-infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | toward the capital | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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