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title: The horse soon found a purchaser, and while the two were inside drin… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The horse soon found a purchaser, and while the two were inside drinking the luck-penny the wizard came along and saw the horse. Who acts: horse, two. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 35

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The horse soon found a purchaser, and while the two were inside drinking the luck-penny the wizard came along and saw the horse.

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**Who acts:** horse, two · **What happens:** find, drink, come along, see · **To what, where:** purchaser, luck penny, horse

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, two), 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:pg5615:24:35
# text = The horse soon found a purchaser, and while the two were inside drinking the luck-penny the wizard came along and saw the horse.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	along	along	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the horse | a purchaser |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchaser=Topic |
| 2 | **drink** | past · progressive | the two | the luck penny |  |  |  | inside *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come along** | past |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |

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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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