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title: They had six horses already, and now they put in eight, and then ten… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had six horses already, and now they put in eight, and then ten, and then twelve, but the more they put in, and the more the coachman whipped them, the less good it did; and the coach never stirred from the spot. Who acts: brother, more coachman, coachman. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 11

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They had six horses already, and now they put in eight, and then ten, and then twelve, but the more they put in, and the more the coachman whipped them, the less good it did; and the coach never stirred from the spot.

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**Who acts:** brother, more coachman, coachman · **What happens:** have, put, put in, whip, do, not stir · **To what, where:** six horses, eight, brother, coach, spot

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, more coachman, coachman), 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:pg503:19:11
# text = They had six horses already, and now they put in eight, and then ten, and then twelve, but the more they put in, and the more the coachman whipped them, the less good it did; and the coach never stirred from the spot.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
16	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	whipped	whip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | brother | six horses |  |  |  | ten twelve *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | past | brother |  |  | eight | now |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in eight=Destination |
| 3 | **put in** | past | brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **whip** | past | the more coachman | brother |  |  |  | the less good *obl* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material |
| 5 | **do** | past | coachman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **stir** | participle · passive |  | the coach |  | the spot |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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