--- title: The horse lifted his head, gave a little neigh, and said softly, ‘Yo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The horse lifted his head, gave a little neigh, and said softly, ‘You look gentle and pitiful, but I know it is your love for your father which makes you tender to me. Who acts: horse, You, I, neigh. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, You, I, neigh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:38:73 # text = The horse lifted his head, gave a little neigh, and said softly, ‘You look gentle and pitiful, but I know it is your love for your father which makes you tender to me. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 neigh neigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 softly softly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pitiful pitiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 ccomp _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 tender tender VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | past | the horse | father's head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **give** | past | the horse *not said here* | a little neigh | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neigh=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | softly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look** | present | You | | | | | gentle *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **know** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | present | neigh | your love | | | | for your father | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | present | your love | you | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **tender** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | me | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/74/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/)