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title: Ride slowly till you get to the fairy’s kingdom, then dismount and g… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ride slowly till you get to the fairy’s kingdom, then dismount and go on foot. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 74

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Ride slowly till you get to the fairy’s kingdom, then dismount and go on foot.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ride, get, dismount, go · **To what, where:** foot

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg641:21:74
# text = Ride slowly till you get to the fairy’s kingdom, then dismount and go on foot.
1	Ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	dismount	dismount	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | you |  |  |  |  | to the fairy's kingdom *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result |
| 3 | **dismount** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | foot |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foot=Location |

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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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