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title: ‘Jump on my brother, the black horse, and go home as fast as you can… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Jump on my brother, the black horse, and go home as fast as you can, and I will follow as quickly as I may,’ cried the brown horse; and leaping forward the king alighted on the back of the black horse, but so near the tail that he almost fell off again. Who acts: you, I, king. A sentence of «The Li
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 46

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‘Jump on my brother, the black horse, and go home as fast as you can, and I will follow as quickly as I may,’ cried the brown horse; and leaping forward the king alighted on the back of the black horse, but so near the tail that he almost fell off again.

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**Who acts:** you, I, king · **What happens:** jump, go, follow, cry, leap, alight · **To what, where:** brown horse, king, back, that

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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 (you, I, king), 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:pg3454:9:46
# text = ‘Jump on my brother, the black horse, and go home as fast as you can, and I will follow as quickly as I may,’ cried the brown horse; and leaping forward the king alighted on the back of the black horse, but so near the tail that he almost fell off again.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
31	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
38	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
52	near	near	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	obl:unmarked	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
59	off	off	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
60	again	again	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on my brother and the black horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brother=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast, home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | future | I |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | you *not said here* | the brown horse |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
| 5 | **leap** | gerund | you *not said here* | the king but the tail |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location king=Theme |
| 6 | **alight** | participle |  | the king but the tail *not said here* |  | the back of the black horse |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fall off** | past | king | that |  |  | again | almost *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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