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title: ‘I will ride on it,’ said the prince; but with that the witch dragge… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I will ride on it,’ said the prince; but with that the witch dragged it away again, and came back with an old, wrinkled, toothless hag, whose hands trembled with age. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 42

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‘I will ride on it,’ said the prince; but with that the witch dragged it away again, and came back with an old, wrinkled, toothless hag, whose hands trembled with age.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** ride, say, drag away, come back, wrinkle, tremble · **To what, where:** thread, prince, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg5615:26:42
# text = ‘I will ride on it,’ said the prince; but with that the witch dragged it away again, and came back with an old, wrinkled, toothless hag, whose hands trembled with age.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
32	toothless	toothless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	appos	_	_
37	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | future | I |  |  | thread |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drag away** | past |  | thread |  |  | again | with the witch; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **come back** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with a old toothless hag | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **tremble** | participle |  | a old toothless hag's hands *not said here* |  |  | with age |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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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