--- title: She bade him be of good courage, looked to see that she had the thre… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She bade him be of good courage, looked to see that she had the three nuts which she had found beside her mother’s grave, mounted her horse, and rode out into the forest. Who acts: Spirit. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/) / 87 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 87 She bade him be of good courage, looked to see that she had the three nuts which she had found beside her mother’s grave, mounted her horse, and rode out into the forest. **Who acts:** Spirit · **What happens:** bade, be, look, see, have, find · **To what, where:** man, three nuts, grave, horse, forest · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spirit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:33:87 # text = She bade him be of good courage, looked to see that she had the three nuts which she had found beside her mother’s grave, mounted her horse, and rode out into the forest. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 beside beside ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’s 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 mounted mount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bade** | past | Spirit | man | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | infinitive | Spirit *not said here* | | | | | of good courage | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | past | Spirit *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Spirit *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **have** | past | Spirit | the three nuts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | | 6 | **find** | past · perfect · passive | | the three nuts | | Spirit's mother's grave | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 7 | **mount** | past | Spirit *not said here* | Spirit's horse | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 8 | **ride out** | past | Spirit *not said here* | | | the forest | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/88/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/)