--- title: In a short time he stopped, and said to them: “My horse can go no fu… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In a short time he stopped, and said to them: “My horse can go no further; you must go on to the war without me, and I will stay here, and make some little clay soldiers, and will play at a battle.” Who acts: king, horse, arms. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/45/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/) / 45 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 45 In a short time he stopped, and said to them: “My horse can go no further; you must go on to the war without me, and I will stay here, and make some little clay soldiers, and will play at a battle.” **Who acts:** king, horse, arms · **What happens:** stop, say, go, go on, stay, make · **To what, where:** arms, little clay soldiers, battle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, horse, arms), 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:pg2435:13:45 # text = In a short time he stopped, and said to them: “My horse can go no further; you must go on to the war without me, and I will stay here, and make some little clay soldiers, and will play at a battle.” 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 18 no no ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 24 on on ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 without without ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 35 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 39 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 42 det _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 47 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | king | | | | time | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king *not said here* | | arms *= arm* | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | can | My horse | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go on** *in a quote* | must | arms *= arm* | | | | | to the war; without king | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stay** *in a quote* | future | king | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present | | some little clay soldiers | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soldier=Product | | 7 | **play** *in a quote* | future | | | | a battle | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/46/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/)