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title: Load the horses with all they can carry, and return to my father, an… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Load the horses with all they can carry, and return to my father, and tell him that you have done your task, and can claim me for your wife.’ Who acts: you, horses, your. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 21

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Load the horses with all they can carry, and return to my father, and tell him that you have done your task, and can claim me for your wife.’

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**Who acts:** you, horses, your · **What happens:** load, carry, return, tell, do, claim · **To what, where:** horses, father, task, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horses, your), 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:pg641:23:21
# text = Load the horses with all they can carry, and return to my father, and tell him that you have done your task, and can claim me for your wife.’
1	Load	load	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	claim	claim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **load** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the horses |  |  | with all | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with all=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | can | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to my father *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | father |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **do** | present · perfect | you | your task |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
| 6 | **claim** *speech: other* | can |  | me |  |  |  | for your wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 7 | **task** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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 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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