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title: This recalled to him his promise and his danger, so he led out the h… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This recalled to him his promise and his danger, so he led out the horse without looking at the golden saddle again. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 33

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This recalled to him his promise and his danger, so he led out the horse without looking at the golden saddle again.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** recall, lead out, look, promise · **To what, where:** prince, horse

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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), 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:pg5615:15:33
# text = This recalled to him his promise and his danger, so he led out the horse without looking at the golden saddle again.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	recalled	recall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recall** | participle |  |  | prince |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |
| 2 | **lead out** | past | prince | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | prince *not said here* |  |  |  | again | at the golden saddle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at saddle=Theme |
| 4 | **promise** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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