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title: ‘Ah, poor creature, what a master you must have to treat you thus!’… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah, poor creature, what a master you must have to treat you thus!’ she said, and pushed the halter off the hook so that the horse might turn round and eat the oats. Who acts: master, poor creature, horse. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 121

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‘Ah, poor creature, what a master you must have to treat you thus!’ she said, and pushed the halter off the hook so that the horse might turn round and eat the oats.

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**Who acts:** master, poor creature, horse · **What happens:** have, treat, say, push, turn round, eat · **To what, where:** poor creature, you, halter, hook, oats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (master, poor creature, horse), 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:pg540:43:121
# text = ‘Ah, poor creature, what a master you must have to treat you thus!’ she said, and pushed the halter off the hook so that the horse might turn round and eat the oats.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
35	round	round	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | must | a master | poor creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **treat** | to-infinitive | poor creature *not said here* |  | you |  |  | thus *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **push** | past |  | the halter |  | the hook |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent halter=Theme off hook=Trajectory |
| 5 | **turn round** | might | the horse |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive | the horse *not said here* | the oats |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Patient |

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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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