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title: Then mounting Sunlight, she rode about till she came to several pala… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then mounting Sunlight, she rode about till she came to several palaces, built on hinges, so that they could always turn towards the sun. Who acts: Sunlight, sails. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 84

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Then mounting Sunlight, she rode about till she came to several palaces, built on hinges, so that they could always turn towards the sun.

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**Who acts:** Sunlight, sails · **What happens:** mount, ride, come, build, turn · **To what, where:** Sunlight, several palaces, hinges, sun.

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunlight, sails), 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:pg641:39:84
# text = Then mounting Sunlight, she rode about till she came to several palaces, built on hinges, so that they could always turn towards the sun.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	mounting	mount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hinges	hinge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
25	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | gerund | Sunlight *not said here* | Sunlight |  |  | then |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient |
| 2 | **ride** | past | Sunlight |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | Sunlight |  |  | several palaces |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | several palaces *not said here* |  | hinges |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on hinge=Source |
| 5 | **turn** | could | sails *= sail* |  |  | the sun. |  | always *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards sun.=Trajectory |

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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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