--- title: So he took leave of her, and put the halter round his horse’s neck a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he took leave of her, and put the halter round his horse’s neck and led him into the forest, where he rubbed him down till his skin was shining like gold. Who acts: prince, skin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, skin), 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:pg641:7:149 # text = So he took leave of her, and put the halter round his horse’s neck and led him into the forest, where he rubbed him down till his skin was shining like gold. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 leave leave NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 halter halter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 round round ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 down down ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 29 till till SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | prince | leave of woman | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | the halter | | | | round prince's horse's neck | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent halter=Goal | | 3 | **lead** | past | prince *not said here* | prince | | the forest | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into forest=Destination | | 4 | **rub down** | past | prince | | snare | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination | | 5 | **shine** | past · progressive | prince's skin | | | | | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/150/) - ↑ back to [The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/)