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title: ‘Eat your supper with a free mind first,’ answered the horse, ‘and f… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Eat your supper with a free mind first,’ answered the horse, ‘and follow them afterwards.’ Who acts: you. 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 68

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‘Eat your supper with a free mind first,’ answered the horse, ‘and follow them afterwards.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** eat, answer, follow · **To what, where:** supper, horse, horses

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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), 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:pg641:7:68
# text = ‘Eat your supper with a free mind first,’ answered the horse, ‘and follow them afterwards.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | your supper |  |  |  | with a free mind; first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the horse |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | horses *= horse* |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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