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title: “Stop! stop!” cried the boy after him, and there was something in hi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Stop! stop!” cried the boy after him, and there was something in his voice that made the horse pull up. Who acts: boy, something, horse. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 25

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“Stop! stop!” cried the boy after him, and there was something in his voice that made the horse pull up.

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**Who acts:** boy, something, horse · **What happens:** stop, cry, be, make, pull up · **To what, where:** stop, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, something, 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:pg3282:21:25
# text = “Stop! stop!” cried the boy after him, and there was something in his voice that made the horse pull up.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | stop |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stop=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the boy |  |  |  | after boy |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past | something |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pull up** | infinitive | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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