--- title: Suppose--but no! the mare and her rider went safely by, vanishing ro… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Suppose--but no! the mare and her rider went safely by, vanishing round a corner, while the colt, trotting along with its head on the ground, smelt the bread, and began greedily to lick up the pieces. Who acts: you, mare. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:27:11 # text = Suppose--but no! the mare and her rider went safely by, vanishing round a corner, while the colt, trotting along with its head on the ground, smelt the bread, and began greedily to lick up the pieces. 1 Suppose suppose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 4 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 rider rider NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 safely safely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 vanishing vanish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 round round ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 colt colt NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 trotting trot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 25 along along ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 smelt smelt VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 39 greedily greedily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 lick lick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suppose** | imperative | you *not said here* | the colt | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | past | the mare and mare's rider | | | | | safely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **vanish** | gerund | the mare and mare's rider *not said here* | | | | | round a corner | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **trot** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | the ground | | with corner's head; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory | | 5 | **smelt** | infinitive | | the bread | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **begin** | past | | | | | | greedily *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **lick up** | to-infinitive | | the pieces | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Source | 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. **Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/12/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/)