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title: Prince Milan rode on slowly with his bride without fearing any furth… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Milan rode on slowly with his bride without fearing any further pursuit. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 60

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Prince Milan rode on slowly with his bride without fearing any further pursuit.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** ride on, fear · **To what, where:** further pursuit

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Prince), 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:pg7277:28:60
# text = Prince Milan rode on slowly with his bride without fearing any further pursuit.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Milan	Milan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride on** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | with Prince's bride; slowly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fear** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | any further pursuit |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pursuit=Stimulus |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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