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title: “Oh! yes, if someone else mounts quickly and shoots the horse dead w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh! yes, if someone else mounts quickly and shoots the horse dead with the pistol that is sticking in the holster, then the young King is saved. Who acts: someone, pistol. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 70

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“Oh! yes, if someone else mounts quickly and shoots the horse dead with the pistol that is sticking in the holster, then the young King is saved.

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**Who acts:** someone, pistol · **What happens:** mount, shoot, stick, save · **To what, where:** horse, holster, young King

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, pistol), 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:pg503:41:70
# text = “Oh! yes, if someone else mounts quickly and shoots the horse dead with the pistol that is sticking in the holster, then the young King is saved.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	mounts	mount	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shoots	shoot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pistol	pistol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	holster	holster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** *in a quote* | present | someone |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shoot** *in a quote* | present | someone *not said here* | the horse |  |  |  | with the pistol; dead *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with pistol=Instrument |
| 3 | **stick** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the pistol |  |  | the holster |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in holster=Destination |
| 4 | **save** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the young King |  |  | then |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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