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title: But as this sort of life was bad for his health, the doctors ordered… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as this sort of life was bad for his health, the doctors ordered him horse exercise, and he soon became a first-rate rider, and used to go out for long excursions on horseback, accompanied always by his father’s stud-groom and a numerous retinue. Who acts: sort, doctors, throve. A sentence of «T
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 37

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But as this sort of life was bad for his health, the doctors ordered him horse exercise, and he soon became a first-rate rider, and used to go out for long excursions on horseback, accompanied always by his father’s stud-groom and a numerous retinue.

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**Who acts:** sort, doctors, throve · **What happens:** be, order, become, use, go out, accompany · **To what, where:** horse exercise, throve, rate rider, long excursions, life

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (sort, doctors, throve), 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:pg640:25:37
# text = But as this sort of life was bad for his health, the doctors ordered him horse exercise, and he soon became a first-rate rider, and used to go out for long excursions on horseback, accompanied always by his father’s stud-groom and a numerous retinue.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	excursions	excursion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
42	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	41	advmod	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’s	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	stud	stud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	groom	groom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	retinue	retinue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this sort of life |  |  |  |  | for throve's health; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | past | the doctors | horse exercise | throve |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary exercise=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | throve | a rate rider |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **use** | participle | throve *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **go out** | to-infinitive | throve *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for long excursions on horseback; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **accompany** | participle |  | long excursions on horseback *not said here* |  |  |  | by throve's father's stud groom and a numerous retinue; always *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by groom=Destination |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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