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title: But the youth carefully watched his opportunity, and just as it was… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the youth carefully watched his opportunity, and just as it was rushing at him with open jaws he threw the bit straight into its mouth, and the horse stood as quiet as a young lamb, and there was no difficulty at all in getting it home to the stable. Who acts: youth, opportunity, horse, difficul
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 58

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But the youth carefully watched his opportunity, and just as it was rushing at him with open jaws he threw the bit straight into its mouth, and the horse stood as quiet as a young lamb, and there was no difficulty at all in getting it home to the stable.

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**Who acts:** youth, opportunity, horse, difficulty · **What happens:** watch, rush, throw, stand, be, get · **To what, where:** opportunity, bit, mouth, difficulty, all

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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 (youth, opportunity, horse, difficulty), 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:pg503:17:58
# text = But the youth carefully watched his opportunity, and just as it was rushing at him with open jaws he threw the bit straight into its mouth, and the horse stood as quiet as a young lamb, and there was no difficulty at all in getting it home to the stable.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	42	expl	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	nmod	_	_
47	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	acl	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	home	home	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | the youth | youth's opportunity |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 2 | **rush** | past · progressive | opportunity |  |  |  |  | at youth; with open jaws | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **throw** | past | youth | the bit |  |  |  | into opportunity's mouth *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer bit=Theme into mouth=Result |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the horse |  |  |  |  | as a young lamb; quiet *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | no difficulty |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | gerund | no difficulty *not said here* | bit |  |  |  | to the stable; home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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