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title: But the fox told him that above the horse’s stall hung a beautiful g… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the fox told him that above the horse’s stall hung a beautiful golden saddle, which he must not touch, if he did not want to bring himself into new troubles worse than those he had escaped from, for then the fox could help him no longer. Who acts: fox, stall. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 29

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But the fox told him that above the horse’s stall hung a beautiful golden saddle, which he must not touch, if he did not want to bring himself into new troubles worse than those he had escaped from, for then the fox could help him no longer.

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**Who acts:** fox, stall · **What happens:** tell, hang, not touch, not want, bring, escape · **To what, where:** prince, beautiful golden saddle, new troubles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, stall), 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:pg5615:15:29
# text = But the fox told him that above the horse’s stall hung a beautiful golden saddle, which he must not touch, if he did not want to bring himself into new troubles worse than those he had escaped from, for then the fox could help him no longer.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	conj	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	no	no	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the fox |  | prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **hang** | past | the horse's stall | a beautiful golden saddle |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **touch** | must | fox | a beautiful golden saddle |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **not** **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fox *not said here* | prince |  | new troubles |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into trouble=Destination |
| 6 | **escape** | past · perfect | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **help** | could | the fox |  | prince |  | then | long *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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