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title: At these words the king hastened back to the stable, and brought out… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At these words the king hastened back to the stable, and brought out the lean horse who travelled quicker than thought. Who acts: king, lean horse. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 62

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At these words the king hastened back to the stable, and brought out the lean horse who travelled quicker than thought.

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**Who acts:** king, lean horse · **What happens:** hasten back, bring out, travel · **To what, where:** king, stable, lean horse, words

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, lean 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:pg641:42:62
# text = At these words the king hastened back to the stable, and brought out the lean horse who travelled quicker than thought.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	quicker	quick	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten back** | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  | the stable |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stable=Destination |
| 2 | **bring out** | past | the king | the lean horse |  | this words |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **travel** | past | the lean horse |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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