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title: Then the youth mounted his horse, who carried him far away to a moun… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the youth mounted his horse, who carried him far away to a mountain which was hollow, for in its side was a great underground cavern. Who acts: youth, mountain. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 1

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Then the youth mounted his horse, who carried him far away to a mountain which was hollow, for in its side was a great underground cavern.

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**Who acts:** youth, mountain · **What happens:** mount, carry, be · **To what, where:** horse, mountain, great underground cavern

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, mountain), 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:pg640:13:1
# text = Then the youth mounted his horse, who carried him far away to a mountain which was hollow, for in its side was a great underground cavern.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | the youth | youth's horse |  |  | then |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | past |  | horse |  | a mountain |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to mountain=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | a mountain |  |  |  |  | hollow *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a great underground cavern |  |  |  | for mountain's side | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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