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title: 'Lead the horse into the stable,' said the raven, 'and lie down your… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Lead the horse into the stable,' said the raven, 'and lie down yourself to sleep, for to-morrow you must make the heroes to live again, and must slay the hag. Who acts: you, heroes. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 118

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'Lead the horse into the stable,' said the raven, 'and lie down yourself to sleep, for to-morrow you must make the heroes to live again, and must slay the hag.

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**Who acts:** you, heroes · **What happens:** lead, say, lie down, sleep, make, live · **To what, where:** horse, stable, raven, yourself, heroes, hag · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heroes), 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:pg3027:5:118
# text = 'Lead the horse into the stable,' said the raven, 'and lie down yourself to sleep, for to-morrow you must make the heroes to live again, and must slay the hag.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | imperative | you *not said here* | the horse |  | the stable |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme into stable=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* | the raven |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent raven=Topic |
| 3 | **lie down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | must | you | the heroes |  |  |  | to morrow | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | to-infinitive | the heroes *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **slay** | must | you *not said here* | the hag |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Patient |

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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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