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title: In the market-place the boldest boys used often to fasten their sled… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the market-place the boldest boys used often to fasten their sledges to the carts of the farmers, and then they got a good ride. Who acts: boldest boys, flakes. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 100

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In the market-place the boldest boys used often to fasten their sledges to the carts of the farmers, and then they got a good ride.

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**Who acts:** boldest boys, flakes · **What happens:** use, fasten, get · **To what, where:** market place, sledges, good ride

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boldest boys, flakes), 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:pg5615:8:100
# text = In the market-place the boldest boys used often to fasten their sledges to the carts of the farmers, and then they got a good ride.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	boldest	bold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | the boldest boys |  |  | the market place |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fasten** | to-infinitive | the boldest boys *not said here* | flakes's sledges |  |  |  | to the carts of the farmers; often *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient to cart=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **get** | past | flakes *= flake* | a good ride |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=Stimulus |

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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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