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title: There he stopped, for no horse or mule that ever was born could clim… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There he stopped, for no horse or mule that ever was born could climb that rock, and Bellah knew it, so she began to sing again: Who acts: horse, Bellah. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 61

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There he stopped, for no horse or mule that ever was born could climb that rock, and Bellah knew it, so she began to sing again:

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**Who acts:** horse, Bellah · **What happens:** stop, bear, climb, know, begin, sing · **To what, where:** horse, rock

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, Bellah), 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:pg3454:34:61
# text = There he stopped, for no horse or mule that ever was born could climb that rock, and Bellah knew it, so she began to sing again:
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | horse |  |  | there |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | no horse or mule |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **climb** | could | no horse or mule | that rock |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location rock=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past | Bellah | rock |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **begin** | past | Bellah |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Bellah *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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 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.

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