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title: 'Only a good horse, if your majesty will be kind enough to give me o… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Only a good horse, if your majesty will be kind enough to give me one,' answered Gilguerillo. Who acts: majesty, good horse. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 22

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'Only a good horse, if your majesty will be kind enough to give me one,' answered Gilguerillo.

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**Who acts:** majesty, good horse · **What happens:** be, give, answer · **To what, where:** one, me, Gilguerillo

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, good horse), 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:pg3027:38:22
# text = 'Only a good horse, if your majesty will be kind enough to give me one,' answered Gilguerillo.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
20	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Gilguerillo	Gilguerillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | your majesty |  |  |  |  | enough, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | your majesty *not said here* | one | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a good horse |  | Gilguerillo |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gilguerillo=Eventuality |

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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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