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title: You will then throw the bridle on your horse's neck without any fear… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: You will then throw the bridle on your horse's neck without any fear of his straying, and will dismount. Who acts: You, horse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 20

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You will then throw the bridle on your horse's neck without any fear of his straying, and will dismount.

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**Who acts:** You, horse · **What happens:** throw, stray, dismount · **To what, where:** bridle, neck, fear

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, horse), 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:pg128:42:20
# text = You will then throw the bridle on your horse's neck without any fear of his straying, and will dismount.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	straying	stray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	dismount	dismount	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **throw** | future | You | the bridle |  | your horse's neck | then | without any fear | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme on neck=Destination |
| 2 | **stray** | gerund | horse | any fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location fear=Theme |
| 3 | **dismount** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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