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title: ‘He has heard and he will follow,’ said the horse; ‘but we have a go… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘He has heard and he will follow,’ said the horse; ‘but we have a good start,’ And on they sped, on and on, leaving the winds behind them. Who acts: king, horse, we, windows. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 29

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‘He has heard and he will follow,’ said the horse; ‘but we have a good start,’ And on they sped, on and on, leaving the winds behind them.

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**Who acts:** king, horse, we, windows · **What happens:** hear, follow, say, have, speed, leave · **To what, where:** good start, winds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, horse, we, windows), 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:pg3454:770`): 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:pg3454:9:29
# text = ‘He has heard and he will follow,’ said the horse; ‘but we have a good start,’ And on they sped, on and on, leaving the winds behind them.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	on	on	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	on	on	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	on	on	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **follow** | future | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | present | we | a good start |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Patient |
| 5 | **speed** | past | windows *= window* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leave** | gerund | windows *= window* *not said here* | the winds |  |  |  | behind windows *= window* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wind=Theme behind they=Location |

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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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