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title: The Prince rode across the bridge and waved the handkerchief twice o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince rode across the bridge and waved the handkerchief twice only on the left hand; there remained across the river a thin, ever so thin a bridge! Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 255

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The Prince rode across the bridge and waved the handkerchief twice only on the left hand; there remained across the river a thin, ever so thin a bridge!

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** ride, wave, remain · **To what, where:** bridge, handkerchief, left hand, river

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg540:7:255
# text = The Prince rode across the bridge and waved the handkerchief twice only on the left hand; there remained across the river a thin, ever so thin a bridge!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	across	across	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the Prince |  |  | the bridge |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across bridge=Trajectory |
| 2 | **wave** | past | the Prince *not said here* | the handkerchief |  | the left hand |  | twice *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient |
| 3 | **remain** | participle | the Prince *not said here* |  |  | the river; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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