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title: They rode back all the way they had come till they reached the place… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They rode back all the way they had come till they reached the place where they had found the eagle caught in the snare; then the horse bade Ciccu to call three times on the king of the birds, and when he replied, to beg him to fetch the veil which the fairest in the world had let fall. Who acts: wo
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 94

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They rode back all the way they had come till they reached the place where they had found the eagle caught in the snare; then the horse bade Ciccu to call three times on the king of the birds, and when he replied, to beg him to fetch the veil which the fairest in the world had let fall.

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**Who acts:** women, Ciccu · **What happens:** ride back, come, reach, find, catch, call · **To what, where:** way, place, eagle, snare, Ciccu, fall · **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 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, Ciccu), 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:pg5615:38:94
# text = They rode back all the way they had come till they reached the place where they had found the eagle caught in the snare; then the horse bade Ciccu to call three times on the king of the birds, and when he replied, to beg him to fetch the veil which the fairest in the world had let fall.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
30	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
33	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	51	parataxis	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	_
60	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	parataxis	_	_
62	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride back** | past | women *= woman* | all way |  |  |  | the horse bade *obl* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | women *= woman* | all way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | women *= woman* | the place |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past · perfect | women *= woman* | the eagle |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Topic |
| 5 | **catch** | participle |  | the eagle *not said here* |  | the snare |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **call** | to-infinitive | women *= woman* *not said here* |  |  |  | time | on the king of the birds | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Ciccu |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | Ciccu *not said here* |  | Ciccu |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ciccu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **let** | past · perfect |  | fall |  | the world |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=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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