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title: I dressed in all haste, had my palfrey saddled, and rode of at full… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I dressed in all haste, had my palfrey saddled, and rode of at full gallop towards the forest, attended by one servant only. Who acts: I, palfrey. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 67

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I dressed in all haste, had my palfrey saddled, and rode of at full gallop towards the forest, attended by one servant only.

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**Who acts:** I, palfrey · **What happens:** dress, have, saddle, attend · **To what, where:** rode, haste, forest

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, palfrey), 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:pg7277:45:67
# text = I dressed in all haste, had my palfrey saddled, and rode of at full gallop towards the forest, attended by one servant only.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	palfrey	palfrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saddled	saddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rode	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | I | rode of full gallop |  | all haste |  | towards the forest | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **saddle** | past | my palfrey |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **attend** | participle |  | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  | by one servant | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by servant=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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