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title: She set out very early the next morning, mounted upon a pretty littl… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She set out very early the next morning, mounted upon a pretty little white mule, which was shod with solid gold, and two of her ladies rode behind her on beautiful horses. Who acts: last, two. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 27

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She set out very early the next morning, mounted upon a pretty little white mule, which was shod with solid gold, and two of her ladies rode behind her on beautiful horses.

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**Who acts:** last, two · **What happens:** set out, mount, shoe, ride · **To what, where:** next morning, pretty little white mule

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, two), 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:pg540:11:27
# text = She set out very early the next morning, mounted upon a pretty little white mule, which was shod with solid gold, and two of her ladies rode behind her on beautiful horses.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	shod	shoe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | last |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mount** | participle |  | the next morning *not said here* |  |  |  | upon a pretty little white mule | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon mule=Destination |
| 3 | **shoe** | past · passive |  | a pretty little white mule |  |  |  | with solid gold | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=Theme |
| 4 | **ride** | past | two of last's ladies |  |  |  |  | behind last; on beautiful horses | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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