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title: He threw the grains of gold in the proper places, and untied the hor… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He threw the grains of gold in the proper places, and untied the horse, but with that he caught sight of the golden saddle, and thought that none but it could suit so beautiful a horse, especially as it had golden shoes. Who acts: prince, horse. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 31

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He threw the grains of gold in the proper places, and untied the horse, but with that he caught sight of the golden saddle, and thought that none but it could suit so beautiful a horse, especially as it had golden shoes.

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**Who acts:** prince, horse · **What happens:** throw, untie, catch, think, suit, have · **To what, where:** grains, proper places, horse, sight, golden shoes, golden saddle

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, horse), 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:pg5615:15:31
# text = He threw the grains of gold in the proper places, and untied the horse, but with that he caught sight of the golden saddle, and thought that none but it could suit so beautiful a horse, especially as it had golden shoes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	untied	untie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
31	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	37	nsubj	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	ccomp	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
45	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | prince | the grains of gold |  | the proper places |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent grain=Theme in place=Destination |
| 2 | **untie** | past | prince *not said here* | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **catch** | past | prince | sight of the golden saddle |  |  |  | with that | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suit** | could | horse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | horse | golden shoes |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | the golden saddle |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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