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title: Choose the handsomest of all the horses, leap quickly on its back, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Choose the handsomest of all the horses, leap quickly on its back, and come to me as fast as you can. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 76

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Choose the handsomest of all the horses, leap quickly on its back, and come to me as fast as you can.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** choose, leap, come · **To what, where:** handsomest, back, me

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg640:11:76
# text = Choose the handsomest of all the horses, leap quickly on its back, and come to me as fast as you can.
1	Choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	leap	leap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | imperative | you *not said here* | the handsomest |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handsome=Theme |
| 2 | **leap** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | stable's back |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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