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title: The breath froze in his mouth, but he took no notice, only bade his… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The breath froze in his mouth, but he took no notice, only bade his horse ride on the faster. Who acts: breath, Petru. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 106

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The breath froze in his mouth, but he took no notice, only bade his horse ride on the faster.

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**Who acts:** breath, Petru · **What happens:** freeze, take, ride · **To what, where:** mouth, notice, faster

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breath, Petru), 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:pg641:20:106
# text = The breath froze in his mouth, but he took no notice, only bade his horse ride on the faster.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | past | the breath |  |  | Petru's mouth |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | Petru | no notice |  | the faster |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument notice=Theme ride=Destination |
| 3 | **ride** |  | Petru |  |  |  |  |  | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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