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title: The man got his two hundred dollars for the horse, and was treated a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man got his two hundred dollars for the horse, and was treated as well, and when they parted from each other it was just as much as he could do to remember to take off the halter. Who acts: man, halter, Jack. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its depend
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 113

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The man got his two hundred dollars for the horse, and was treated as well, and when they parted from each other it was just as much as he could do to remember to take off the halter.

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**Who acts:** man, halter, Jack · **What happens:** get, treat, part, be, do, remember · **To what, where:** hundred dollars, halter

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, halter, Jack), 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:pg540:43:113
# text = The man got his two hundred dollars for the horse, and was treated as well, and when they parted from each other it was just as much as he could do to remember to take off the halter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	21	obl	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	off	off	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the man | Jack's hundred dollars |  |  |  | for the horse | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme for horse=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **treat** | past · passive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |
| 3 | **part** | past | man |  |  |  |  | from each | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from each=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | halter |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | could | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **remember** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **take off** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | the halter |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=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 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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