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title: First the eldest, and then the second, and so on according to their… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: First the eldest, and then the second, and so on according to their age, and he was extremely careful to lay each head at the tail of the foal to which it had belonged, and when that was done, all the foals became princes again. Who acts: bridegroom, head, foals. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» b
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 112

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First the eldest, and then the second, and so on according to their age, and he was extremely careful to lay each head at the tail of the foal to which it had belonged, and when that was done, all the foals became princes again.

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**Who acts:** bridegroom, head, foals · **What happens:** accord, be, lay, belong, do, become · **To what, where:** head, tail, that, princes

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegroom, head, foals), 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:pg540:49:112
# text = First the eldest, and then the second, and so on according to their age, and he was extremely careful to lay each head at the tail of the foal to which it had belonged, and when that was done, all the foals became princes again.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	47	det:predet	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	parataxis	_	_
49	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	xcomp	_	_
50	again	again	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | bridegroom |  |  |  |  | careful, extremely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | to-infinitive | bridegroom *not said here* | each head |  | the tail of the foal |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at tail=Destination |
| 4 | **belong** | past · perfect | head |  |  |  |  | to the foal | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **become** | past | all foals | princes |  |  | again |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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