--- title: The King went and looked at both the dappled horses; he looked high… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King went and looked at both the dappled horses; he looked high and he looked low, he looked before and he looked behind, but there was not a hair’s difference between the two. Who acts: King, difference. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, difference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:39:18 # text = The King went and looked at both the dappled horses; he looked high and he looked low, he looked before and he looked behind, but there was not a hair’s difference between the two. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 both both CCONJ CC _ 10 cc:preconj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 dappled dappled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 before before ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 behind behind ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 30 expl _ _ 30 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 36 between between ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the King | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | the King *not said here* | | | | | at the dappled horses | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at horse=Theme | | 3 | **look** | past | King | | | | | high *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **look** | past | King | | | | | low *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **look** | past | King | | | | | before *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **look** | past | King | | | | | behind *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **be** | past | a hair's difference between the two | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/39/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/39/19/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dwarfs, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/39/)