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title: At last, after a long time, came a knight riding upon a horse that w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, after a long time, came a knight riding upon a horse that was such a fine one, its equal had never yet been seen. Who acts: knight, that. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 91

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At last, after a long time, came a knight riding upon a horse that was such a fine one, its equal had never yet been seen.

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**Who acts:** knight, that · **What happens:** come, ride, be, not see · **To what, where:** fine one, equal

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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, that), 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:pg503:48:91
# text = At last, after a long time, came a knight riding upon a horse that was such a fine one, its equal had never yet been seen.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	after	after	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	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	equal	equal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a knight |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | gerund | a knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon a horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | such fine one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | armor's equal |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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