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title: “Yes, but it is not so easy a thing as you think to ride the horse h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, but it is not so easy a thing as you think to ride the horse home,” said the Master-maid; “but I will teach you what to do. Who acts: you, Master maid. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 54

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“Yes, but it is not so easy a thing as you think to ride the horse home,” said the Master-maid; “but I will teach you what to do.

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**Who acts:** you, Master maid · **What happens:** not be, think, ride, say, teach, do · **To what, where:** horse, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Master maid), 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:pg503:17:54
# text = “Yes, but it is not so easy a thing as you think to ride the horse home,” said the Master-maid; “but I will teach you what to do.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **ride** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the horse |  |  |  | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Master maid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future | the Master maid *= maid* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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