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title: With a bound she was in the saddle, and seizing the reins bade Sunli… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With a bound she was in the saddle, and seizing the reins bade Sunlight take her home as fast as his legs could carry him. Who acts: princess, seizing, legs. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 71

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With a bound she was in the saddle, and seizing the reins bade Sunlight take her home as fast as his legs could carry him.

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**Who acts:** princess, seizing, legs · **What happens:** be, seize, take, carry · **To what, where:** saddle, reins bade, home, Sunlight

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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, seizing, legs), 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:pg641:40:71
# text = With a bound she was in the saddle, and seizing the reins bade Sunlight take her home as fast as his legs could carry him.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | princess |  |  | the saddle |  | with a bound | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | gerund |  | the reins bade |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | seizing | princess's home |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | could | Sunlight's legs | Sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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