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title: So the princess came down from the tree and mounted Sunlight, while… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the princess came down from the tree and mounted Sunlight, while the stud followed meekly after, the wounded horse bringing up the rear. Who acts: princess, stud, wounded horse. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, with its dependency t
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 43

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So the princess came down from the tree and mounted Sunlight, while the stud followed meekly after, the wounded horse bringing up the rear.

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**Who acts:** princess, stud, wounded horse · **What happens:** come down, mount, follow, bring up · **To what, where:** tree, Sunlight, rear

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, stud, wounded horse), 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:pg641:40:43
# text = So the princess came down from the tree and mounted Sunlight, while the stud followed meekly after, the wounded horse bringing up the rear.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stud	stud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	meekly	meekly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	after	after	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
23	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rear	rear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | the princess |  |  | the tree |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **mount** | past | the princess *not said here* | Sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient |
| 3 | **follow** | past | the stud |  |  |  |  | after, meekly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring up** | gerund | the wounded horse *not said here* | the rear |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rear=Patient |

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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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