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title: He stretched his hand cautiously out to seize the bridle, when the h… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He stretched his hand cautiously out to seize the bridle, when the horse suddenly began to neigh as loud as he could. Who acts: youth, horse. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 86

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He stretched his hand cautiously out to seize the bridle, when the horse suddenly began to neigh as loud as he could.

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**Who acts:** youth, horse · **What happens:** stretch, seize, begin, neigh · **To what, where:** hand, bridle

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, 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:pg5615:1:86
# text = He stretched his hand cautiously out to seize the bridle, when the horse suddenly began to neigh as loud as he could.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	neigh	neigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | youth | youth's hand |  |  |  | out *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **seize** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | the bridle |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the horse |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **neigh** | to-infinitive | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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