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title: At the door stands a milk-white mare, with a golden saddle for you t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the door stands a milk-white mare, with a golden saddle for you to sit on, and a golden bridle to hold in your hand." A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 16

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At the door stands a milk-white mare, with a golden saddle for you to sit on, and a golden bridle to hold in your hand."

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**What happens:** stand, sit on, hold · **To what, where:** white mare, door, hand

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7885:23:16
# text = At the door stands a milk-white mare, with a golden saddle for you to sit on, and a golden bridle to hold in your hand."
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present |  | a white mare |  | the door |  | with a golden saddle for you; a golden bridle *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mare=Theme at door=Destination |
| 2 | **sit on** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | your hand |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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