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title: So one day as Prince Fickle rode by she said to her little calf: — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So one day as Prince Fickle rode by she said to her little calf: Who acts: one day, Helena. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 30

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So one day as Prince Fickle rode by she said to her little calf:

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**Who acts:** one day, Helena · **What happens:** ride, say · **To what, where:** little calf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one day, Helena), 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:pg7277:29:30
# text = So one day as Prince Fickle rode by she said to her little calf:
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | one day as Fickle  Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Helena |  | Helena's little calf |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to calf=Recipient |

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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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