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title: The Prince’s horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince’s horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the beast, and again began fighting with it. Who acts: horse, Prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 26

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The Prince’s horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the beast, and again began fighting with it.

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**Who acts:** horse, Prince · **What happens:** awake, jump, set off, catch up, begin, fight · **To what, where:** Prince, pursuit, beast

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:1385`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:13:26
# text = The Prince’s horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the beast, and again began fighting with it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
30	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | the Prince's horse | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 2 | **jump** | past | Prince |  |  |  | moment |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **set off** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  | pursuit | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **catch up** | past | Prince *not said here* | the beast |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **fight** | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with beast | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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