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title: Next morning, in the grey light of dawn, the Master of the Horse let… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning, in the grey light of dawn, the Master of the Horse let out the seven foals again, and off they set over hill and dale, through woods and bogs, and off went Cinderlad after them. Who acts: Next morning, foals. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals, with its 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 59

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Next morning, in the grey light of dawn, the Master of the Horse let out the seven foals again, and off they set over hill and dale, through woods and bogs, and off went Cinderlad after them.

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**Who acts:** Next morning, foals · **What happens:** let out, set, go, light · **To what, where:** seven foals, hill, dawn

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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 (Next morning, 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:pg540:49:59
# text = Next morning, in the grey light of dawn, the Master of the Horse let out the seven foals again, and off they set over hill and dale, through woods and bogs, and off went Cinderlad after them.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	off	off	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
40	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	_
41	after	after	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let out** | past | Next morning and the grey light of dawn and the Master of the Horse | the seven foals |  |  | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | present | foals *= foal* |  |  | hill and dale |  | through woods and bogs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over hill=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | past | Next morning and the grey light of dawn and the Master of the Horse *not said here* |  |  |  | after foals *= foal* | off *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **light** |  |  | dawn |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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