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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 10

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He had already gone some miles when, to his great surprise, the horse spoke, and said: “It is no use your returning home just now, your father will only beat you.

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**Who acts:** youth, horse, surprise, your, father · **What happens:** go, speak, say, be, return, beat · **To what, where:** miles, use, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, horse, surprise, your), 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:pg2435:14:10
# text = He had already gone some miles when, to his great surprise, the horse spoke, and said: “It is no use your returning home just now, your father will only beat you.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl	_	_
28	home	home	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | youth | some miles |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | surprise | no use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** *in a quote* | gerund | your | no use *not said here* |  |  | now | home *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Theme |
| 6 | **beat** *in a quote* | future | your father | you |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme |
| 7 | **surprise** |  | youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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.

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