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title: ‘If you will procure me the best shoes for my horse, and the most ma… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you will procure me the best shoes for my horse, and the most magnificent saddle and bridle that can be found,’ said the youth, ‘you may have all my twelve mares just as they are standing out on the hill, and their twelve foals into the bargain.’ Who acts: you, mares. A sentence of «The Red Fair
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 13

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‘If you will procure me the best shoes for my horse, and the most magnificent saddle and bridle that can be found,’ said the youth, ‘you may have all my twelve mares just as they are standing out on the hill, and their twelve foals into the bargain.’

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**Who acts:** you, mares · **What happens:** procure, find, say, have, stand out · **To what, where:** best shoes, me, magnificent saddle, youth, twelve mares, hill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, mares), 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:pg540:38:13
# text = ‘If you will procure me the best shoes for my horse, and the most magnificent saddle and bridle that can be found,’ said the youth, ‘you may have all my twelve mares just as they are standing out on the hill, and their twelve foals into the bargain.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
39	just	just	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	parataxis	_	_
53	into	into	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **procure** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | the best shoes | me |  |  | the magnificent saddle and bridle *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary shoe=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | can · passive |  | the magnificent saddle and bridle |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | may | you | my twelve mares |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Patient |
| 5 | **stand out** | present · progressive | mares *= mare* |  |  | the hill |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |

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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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