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title: Then the two friends set out, but the horse chose what roads he plea… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the two friends set out, but the horse chose what roads he pleased, and directed Ciccu in everything. Who acts: two friends, horse. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 29

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Then the two friends set out, but the horse chose what roads he pleased, and directed Ciccu in everything.

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**Who acts:** two friends, horse · **What happens:** set out, choose, direct · **To what, where:** Ciccu, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two friends, horse), 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:pg5615:38:29
# text = Then the two friends set out, but the horse chose what roads he pleased, and directed Ciccu in everything.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
13	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	directed	direct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle | the two friends |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | past | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **direct** | past | the horse *not said here* | Ciccu |  | everything |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent ciccu=Theme in everything=Eventuality |

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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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