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title: Forgetful of all else, the King, setting spurs to his horse, followe… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Forgetful of all else, the King, setting spurs to his horse, followed at full speed. Who acts: Forgetful. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 111

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Forgetful of all else, the King, setting spurs to his horse, followed at full speed.

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**Who acts:** Forgetful · **What happens:** set, follow · **To what, where:** spurs, full speed

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Forgetful), 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:pg7128:18:111
# text = Forgetful of all else, the King, setting spurs to his horse, followed at full speed.
1	Forgetful	Forgetful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	conj	_	_
4	else	else	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
10	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | gerund | Forgetful and the King | spurs |  |  |  | to king's horse | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient spur=Result |
| 2 | **follow** | participle | Forgetful and the King *not said here* |  |  | full speed |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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