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title: Then the mare pulled a little forward again, and it moved with such… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the mare pulled a little forward again, and it moved with such difficulty that the Governor had not the least idea that this was the Master Thief. Who acts: mare, spot, Governor, this. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 210

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Then the mare pulled a little forward again, and it moved with such difficulty that the Governor had not the least idea that this was the Master Thief.

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**Who acts:** mare, spot, Governor, this · **What happens:** pull, move, have, be · **To what, where:** little, least idea, Master Thief

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, spot, Governor, this), 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:pg540:9:210
# text = Then the mare pulled a little forward again, and it moved with such difficulty that the Governor had not the least idea that this was the Master Thief.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past | the mare | a little |  |  | then; again | forward *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | past | spot |  |  |  |  | with such difficulty | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Governor | the least idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this | the Master Thief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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