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title: Then, leaping on his horse, he shouted, ‘Now, my steed, fly like the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, leaping on his horse, he shouted, ‘Now, my steed, fly like the wind!’ and they rode right through the world, till one day they came to the town where the young man and his wife lived. Who acts: brother, hearts, young man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book,
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 61

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Then, leaping on his horse, he shouted, ‘Now, my steed, fly like the wind!’ and they rode right through the world, till one day they came to the town where the young man and his wife lived.

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**Who acts:** brother, hearts, young man · **What happens:** leap, shout, fly, ride, come, live · **To what, where:** steed, world, town

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, hearts, young man), 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:pg5615:23:61
# text = Then, leaping on his horse, he shouted, ‘Now, my steed, fly like the wind!’ and they rode right through the world, till one day they came to the town where the young man and his wife lived.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	right	right	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	till	till	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	46	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
46	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | gerund | brother *not said here* |  |  |  | then | on brother's horse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | brother | my steed |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Topic |
| 3 | **fly** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like the wind | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ride** | past | hearts *= heart* |  |  | the world |  | right *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through world=Trajectory |
| 5 | **come** | past | hearts *= heart* |  |  | the town | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **live** | past | the young man and brother's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 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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