--- title: After you get on your horse, should you hear anything shouting or ma… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After you get on your horse, should you hear anything shouting or making any noise after you, be sure not to look back, as they will follow you for thousands of miles; but when the time is up and you get near my place, it will be all over. Who acts: you, apples, time, noise. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, apples, time, noise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:27:3 # text = After you get on your horse, should you hear anything shouting or making any noise after you, be sure not to look back, as they will follow you for thousands of miles; but when the time is up and you get near my place, it will be all over. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 shouting shout VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 25 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 up up ADV RB _ 21 ccomp _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 46 near near ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 51 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 52 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 cop _ _ 53 all all ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 over over ADV RB _ 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | you | | | | | on your horse | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on horse=Source | | 2 | **hear** | should | you | anything | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | gerund | | any noise | | | after you | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **look back** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **follow** | future | apples *= apple* | you | | | | for thousands of miles | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for thousand=Attribute | | 8 | **is** | present | the time | | | | | up *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **get** | present | you | | | my place | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **is** | future | noise | | | | | all, over *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/4/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/)