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title: Thus he rode for a long way--it may have been a third part of the wa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus he rode for a long way--it may have been a third part of the way up--but when he had got so far he turned his horse round and rode down again. Who acts: knight, way. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 59

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Thus he rode for a long way--it may have been a third part of the way up--but when he had got so far he turned his horse round and rode down again.

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**Who acts:** knight, way · **What happens:** ride, be, get, turn, ride down · **To what, where:** third part, horse

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, way), 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:pg503:48:59
# text = Thus he rode for a long way--it may have been a third part of the way up--but when he had got so far he turned his horse round and rode down again.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	parataxis	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	round	round	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | knight |  |  |  |  | for a long way; thus *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | may · perfect | way | a third part |  |  |  | of the way | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past · perfect | knight |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **turn** | past | knight | knight's horse |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 5 | **ride down** | past | knight *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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