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title: ‘No, thank you, there is no need; my horse is so well broken in that… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No, thank you, there is no need; my horse is so well broken in that it will stand still when I bid it.’ Who acts: need, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 67

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‘No, thank you, there is no need; my horse is so well broken in that it will stand still when I bid it.’

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**Who acts:** need, I · **What happens:** thank, be, break, stand, bid · **To what, where:** you, horse, need

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (need, I), 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:pg540:30:67
# text = ‘No, thank you, there is no need; my horse is so well broken in that it will stand still when I bid it.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | no need |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | present · passive |  | my horse |  |  |  | well *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **stand** | future | need |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bid** | past | I | need |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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