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title: ‘You must not stop an instant,’ said the horse, and Petru gathered u… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You must not stop an instant,’ said the horse, and Petru gathered up all his strength, and laid about him harder than ever. Who acts: You, Petru. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 21

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‘You must not stop an instant,’ said the horse, and Petru gathered up all his strength, and laid about him harder than ever.

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**Who acts:** You, Petru · **What happens:** not stop, say, gather up, lay · **To what, where:** instant, horse, strength · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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, Petru), 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:pg641:20:21
# text = ‘You must not stop an instant,’ said the horse, and Petru gathered up all his strength, and laid about him harder than ever.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | must | You | a instant |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector instant=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather up** | past | Petru | Petru's strength |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about Petru; hard *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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