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title: In three more days the seven years would be at an end, when a knight… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In three more days the seven years would be at an end, when a knight in golden armour and mounted on a spirited steed was seen making his way towards the fatal hill. Who acts: seven years, knight. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its dependen
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 14

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In three more days the seven years would be at an end, when a knight in golden armour and mounted on a spirited steed was seen making his way towards the fatal hill.

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**Who acts:** seven years, knight · **What happens:** be, mount, see, make · **To what, where:** three more days, end, spirited steed, knight, way

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven years, knight), 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:pg640:22:14
# text = In three more days the seven years would be at an end, when a knight in golden armour and mounted on a spirited steed was seen making his way towards the fatal hill.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	spirited	spirited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
28	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the seven years | three more days *not said here* |  |  | at a end |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  | a spirited steed |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on steed=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | a knight in golden armour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | a knight in golden armour *not said here* | neighbourhood's way |  |  |  | towards the fatal hill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |

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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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