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title: When you have got there you must just strike the horse beneath the l… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When you have got there you must just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again; but you may take the golden apple with you.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 71

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When you have got there you must just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again; but you may take the golden apple with you.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** get, strike, bid, go, take · **To what, where:** horse, ear, golden apple

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg503:4:71
# text = When you have got there you must just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again; but you may take the golden apple with you.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · perfect | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **strike** | must | you | the horse |  |  |  | beneath the left ear | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument |
| 3 | **bid** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | may | you | the golden apple |  |  |  | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |

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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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