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title: The fairies had not seen him, so they dismounted; tied their horses… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairies had not seen him, so they dismounted; tied their horses to trees and plunged gaily into the fairy lake. Who acts: fairies. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 52

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The fairies had not seen him, so they dismounted; tied their horses to trees and plunged gaily into the fairy lake.

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**Who acts:** fairies · **What happens:** not see, dismount, tie, plunge · **To what, where:** fairies, horses, fairy lake

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:19:52
# text = The fairies had not seen him, so they dismounted; tied their horses to trees and plunged gaily into the fairy lake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dismounted	dismount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	gaily	gaily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fairies |  |  |  | king *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dismount** | past | fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tie** | past | fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | fairies's horses |  |  |  | to trees | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **plunge** | past | fairies *= fairy* *not said here* |  |  | the fairy lake |  | gaily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into lake=Initial\_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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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