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title: He jumped lightly on his horse, and was a mile from home before Tubb… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He jumped lightly on his horse, and was a mile from home before Tubby had ceased laughing. Who acts: man, Tubby. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 29

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He jumped lightly on his horse, and was a mile from home before Tubby had ceased laughing.

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**Who acts:** man, Tubby · **What happens:** jump, be, cease, laugh · **To what, where:** mile, home

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Tubby), 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:pg540:40:29
# text = He jumped lightly on his horse, and was a mile from home before Tubby had ceased laughing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | man |  |  |  |  | on man's horse; lightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a mile |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cease** | past · perfect | Tubby |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | Tubby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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