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title: ‘Here she broke off with a significant look, and mounting my enemy t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Here she broke off with a significant look, and mounting my enemy the unicorn, speedily disappeared. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 18

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‘Here she broke off with a significant look, and mounting my enemy the unicorn, speedily disappeared.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** break off, mount, disappear · **To what, where:** enemy

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Princess), 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:pg7277:38:18
# text = ‘Here she broke off with a significant look, and mounting my enemy the unicorn, speedily disappeared.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mounting	mount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break off** | past | Princess |  |  | here |  | with a significant look | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with look=Instrument |
| 2 | **mount** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | my enemy |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme unicorn=Destination |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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