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title: And she chose the most spirited horse in the stable, with eyes of fl… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And she chose the most spirited horse in the stable, with eyes of flame, and a coat of shining silver. Who acts: heart, coat. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 40

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And she chose the most spirited horse in the stable, with eyes of flame, and a coat of shining silver.

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**Who acts:** heart, coat · **What happens:** choose, spirit, shine · **To what, where:** spirited horse, stable, silver

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (heart, coat), 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:pg641:38:40
# text = And she chose the most spirited horse in the stable, with eyes of flame, and a coat of shining silver.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	spirited	spirit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | heart | the spirited horse |  | the stable and eyes of flame |  | a coat *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 2 | **spirit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | a coat *not said here* | silver |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme |

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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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