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title: So the youth rode onwards again, and many and many were the new scen… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the youth rode onwards again, and many and many were the new scenes they saw, for travelling on Dapplegrim’s back was not travelling slowly, as may be imagined, and then Dapplegrim neighed. Who acts: youth, many, new scenes, Dapplegrim. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 76

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So the youth rode onwards again, and many and many were the new scenes they saw, for travelling on Dapplegrim’s back was not travelling slowly, as may be imagined, and then Dapplegrim neighed.

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**Who acts:** youth, many, new scenes, Dapplegrim · **What happens:** ride, be, see, travel, not travel, imagine · **To what, where:** new scenes, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, many, new scenes, Dapplegrim), 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:pg540:38:76
# text = So the youth rode onwards again, and many and many were the new scenes they saw, for travelling on Dapplegrim’s back was not travelling slowly, as may be imagined, and then Dapplegrim neighed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	onwards	onwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
28	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
37	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	neighed	neigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the youth |  |  |  | again | onwards *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | many | the new scenes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | the new scenes |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  | Dapplegrim's back |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **travel** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **imagine** | may · passive | the new scenes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF» |
| 7 | **neigh** | past | Dapplegrim |  |  |  | then |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP 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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