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title: The husband’s horse, seeing this, neighed, and said to the mare: “Co… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The husband’s horse, seeing this, neighed, and said to the mare: “Come along, make haste; why are you so slow?” Who acts: horse, this, mare. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 55

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The husband’s horse, seeing this, neighed, and said to the mare: “Come along, make haste; why are you so slow?”

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**Who acts:** horse, this, mare · **What happens:** see, neigh, say, come along, make, be · **To what, where:** this, mare, haste · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, this, mare), 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:pg2435:6:55
# text = The husband’s horse, seeing this, neighed, and said to the mare: “Come along, make haste; why are you so slow?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	neighed	neigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
19	along	along	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | the husband's horse | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **neigh** | participle | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the husband's horse *not said here* |  | the mare |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mare=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come along** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the mare *= mare* |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | 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:** «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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