--- title: But though, unlike her sister, she was quite prepared for the appear… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But though, unlike her sister, she was quite prepared for the appearance of the wolf when she reached the copper bridge, she showed no greater courage, and galloped home as fast as her horse could carry her. Who acts: sister, horse. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/) / 56 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 56 But though, unlike her sister, she was quite prepared for the appearance of the wolf when she reached the copper bridge, she showed no greater courage, and galloped home as fast as her horse could carry her. **Who acts:** sister, horse · **What happens:** prepare, reach, show, gallop, carry · **To what, where:** sister, copper bridge, greater courage 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 (sister, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:38:56 # text = But though, unlike her sister, she was quite prepared for the appearance of the wolf when she reached the copper bridge, she showed no greater courage, and galloped home as fast as her horse could carry her. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 though though ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 unlike unlike ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 quite quite ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 parataxis _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 28 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 galloped gallop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 home home ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 as as ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prepare** | past · passive | | sister | | | | unlike sister's sister; for the appearance of the wolf; though *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for appearance=Beneficiary | | 2 | **reach** | past | sister | the copper bridge | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme | | 3 | **show** | past | sister | no greater courage | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient | | 4 | **gallop** | past | sister *not said here* | | | | | fast, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | could | sister's horse | sister | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/57/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/)