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title: You shall have the loan of my horse and carriage, and then you will… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You shall have the loan of my horse and carriage, and then you will get there by night; but her house is three hundred miles off, go the nearest way you will.’ Who acts: You, house. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 36

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You shall have the loan of my horse and carriage, and then you will get there by night; but her house is three hundred miles off, go the nearest way you will.’

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**Who acts:** You, house · **What happens:** have, get, be, go, loan · **To what, where:** loan, nearest way, horse

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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 (You, house), 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:pg540:43:36
# text = You shall have the loan of my horse and carriage, and then you will get there by night; but her house is three hundred miles off, go the nearest way you will.’
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	off	off	ADV	RB	_	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | You | the loan of my horse and carriage |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | future | you |  |  | there | then; night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | woman's house |  |  |  |  | hundred miles *obl:unmarked*; off *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | You *not said here* | the nearest way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **loan** |  |  | my horse and carriage |  |  |  |  | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=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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