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title: But the horse answered: 'Do not be frightened; call the little fish… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the horse answered: 'Do not be frightened; call the little fish whose life you saved, and she will bring it to you.' Who acts: horse, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 71

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But the horse answered: 'Do not be frightened; call the little fish whose life you saved, and she will bring it to you.'

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**Who acts:** horse, you · **What happens:** answer, not frighten, call, save, bring · **To what, where:** little fish, life, fish, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, you), 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:pg3027:32:71
# text = But the horse answered: 'Do not be frightened; call the little fish whose life you saved, and she will bring it to you.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **frighten** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive · do-support |  |  | the little fish  the little fish  the little fish's life's life |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient |
| 4 | **save** | past | you | the little fish  the little fish  life's life's life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | future | horse | fish | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Destination |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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