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title: The blacksmith had to shoe the king’s horses, and thought to himself… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The blacksmith had to shoe the king’s horses, and thought to himself, ‘Without doubt the house will be yours!’ Who acts: blacksmith. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 18

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The blacksmith had to shoe the king’s horses, and thought to himself, ‘Without doubt the house will be yours!’

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**Who acts:** blacksmith · **What happens:** have, think, be · **To what, where:** shoe, king, yours · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blacksmith), 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:pg5615:8:18
# text = The blacksmith had to shoe the king’s horses, and thought to himself, ‘Without doubt the house will be yours!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	doubt	doubt	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the blacksmith | shoe  the king's horses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | the blacksmith *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | future |  | yours |  |  |  | without the house | 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 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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