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title: As he could get no other horse, he went into the forest, broke off a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he could get no other horse, he went into the forest, broke off a branch, stripped the bark off it, so that it became still whiter than his brothers’ horses, and, mounted on this. rode off after his eleven brothers. Who acts: eleven, bark. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The P
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 15

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As he could get no other horse, he went into the forest, broke off a branch, stripped the bark off it, so that it became still whiter than his brothers’ horses, and, mounted on this. rode off after his eleven brothers.

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**Who acts:** eleven, bark · **What happens:** get, go, break off, strip, become, mount · **To what, where:** other horse, forest, branch, bark, this

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven, bark), 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:pg5615:28:15
# text = As he could get no other horse, he went into the forest, broke off a branch, stripped the bark off it, so that it became still whiter than his brothers’ horses, and, mounted on this. rode off after his eleven brothers.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	stripped	strip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	_
44	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
45	off	off	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	after	after	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | could | eleven | no other horse |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | past | eleven |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **break off** | past |  | a branch |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient |
| 4 | **strip** | past |  | the bark |  | bark |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme off it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **become** | past | bark |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **mount** | participle | bark *not said here* |  |  | this |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on this=Destination |
| 7 | **ride off** | past | eleven *not said here* |  |  |  | after eleven's eleven brothers |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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