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title: But strike the water with the halter and say, “Come here, O mare of… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But strike the water with the halter and say, “Come here, O mare of the mountain witch!” and she will come.’ Who acts: you, mare. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 112

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But strike the water with the halter and say, “Come here, O mare of the mountain witch!” and she will come.’

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**Who acts:** you, mare · **What happens:** strike, say, come · **To what, where:** water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mare), 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:pg641:7:112
# text = But strike the water with the halter and say, “Come here, O mare of the mountain witch!” and she will come.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	strike	strike	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	16	case	_	_
16	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | imperative | you *not said here* | the water |  |  |  | with the halter | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient with halter=Instrument |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  | of mare of the mountain witch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of mare=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **come** | future | mare |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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