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title: And if thou abidest were thou art, he will unhorse thee. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And if thou abidest were thou art, he will unhorse thee. Who acts: thou, horse. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 48

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And if thou abidest were thou art, he will unhorse thee.

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**Who acts:** thou, horse · **What happens:** abide, be, unhorse · **To what, where:** thee

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:2719`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:30:48
# text = And if thou abidest were thou art, he will unhorse thee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	abidest	abide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	were	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel|Typo=Yes	7	advmod	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	art	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	unhorse	unhorse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abide** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **unhorse** | future | horse | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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