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title: But all of a sudden, round the corner came the squire on horseback,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But all of a sudden, round the corner came the squire on horseback, full gallop, as if the boggles were after him; but the fool had to jump, even though the squire pulled his horse back on his haunches. Who acts: all, boggles, fool, squire. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 62

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But all of a sudden, round the corner came the squire on horseback, full gallop, as if the boggles were after him; but the fool had to jump, even though the squire pulled his horse back on his haunches.

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**Who acts:** all, boggles, fool, squire · **What happens:** come, be, have, jump, pull back · **To what, where:** squire, horseback, horse, haunches

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, boggles, fool, squire), 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:pg14241:22:62
# text = But all of a sudden, round the corner came the squire on horseback, full gallop, as if the boggles were after him; but the fool had to jump, even though the squire pulled his horse back on his haunches.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boggles	boggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	back	back	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	haunches	haunch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | all | the squire and full gallop |  | horseback |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location squire=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the boggles |  |  |  | after dust |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | the fool |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **jump** | to-infinitive | the fool *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pull back** | past | the squire | dust's horse |  | dust's haunches |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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