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title: This time the dappled horse was not unwilling to go away with the yo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time the dappled horse was not unwilling to go away with the youth, so he mounted it, and when he came riding home to his brothers they all smote their hands together and crossed themselves, for never in their lives had they either seen or heard tell of such a horse as that. Who acts: dappled h
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 12

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This time the dappled horse was not unwilling to go away with the youth, so he mounted it, and when he came riding home to his brothers they all smote their hands together and crossed themselves, for never in their lives had they either seen or heard tell of such a horse as that.

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**Who acts:** dappled horse, youth, brothers, lives · **What happens:** not unwill, go away, mount, come, ride, smite · **To what, where:** horse, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (dappled horse, youth, brothers, lives), 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:pg540:38:12
# text = This time the dappled horse was not unwilling to go away with the youth, so he mounted it, and when he came riding home to his brothers they all smote their hands together and crossed themselves, for never in their lives had they either seen or heard tell of such a horse as that.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dappled	dappled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
25	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
26	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	together	together	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	48	advmod	_	_
48	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	xcomp	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	amod	_	_
51	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	55	det:predet	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
56	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **unwill** | past · progressive | the dappled horse |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go away** | to-infinitive | the dappled horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the youth; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with youth=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **mount** | past | youth | horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **ride** | gerund | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to youth's brothers; home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to brother=Trajectory |
| 6 | **smite** | past | brothers *= brother* | brothers's hands |  |  |  | together *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer |
| 7 | **cross** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 8 | **have** | past | brothers's lives |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **see** | participle | lives *= life* |  |  |  |  | as that; either *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as that=Attribute |
| 10 | **hear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=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 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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