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title: When he was twelve years old, one fine winter day he rode into the f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was twelve years old, one fine winter day he rode into the forest along with his men to enjoy himself. Who acts: Ring. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 5

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When he was twelve years old, one fine winter day he rode into the forest along with his men to enjoy himself.

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**Who acts:** Ring · **What happens:** be, ride, enjoy · **To what, where:** forest, Ring

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring), 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:pg640:42:5
# text = When he was twelve years old, one fine winter day he rode into the forest along with his men to enjoy himself.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ring |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride** | past | Ring |  |  | the forest | day | along Ring's men | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory |
| 3 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | Ring *not said here* | Ring |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=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 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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