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title: And besides the horses she has a foal and its mother, and the man wh… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And besides the horses she has a foal and its mother, and the man who serves her must look after them for three whole days, and if he does not let them run away he will in the end get the choice of any horse as a present from the old woman. Who acts: woman, man, horses. A sentence of «The Violet Fai
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 87

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And besides the horses she has a foal and its mother, and the man who serves her must look after them for three whole days, and if he does not let them run away he will in the end get the choice of any horse as a present from the old woman.

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**Who acts:** woman, man, horses · **What happens:** beside, have, serve, look, not let, run away · **To what, where:** horses, foal, woman, choice, end

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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 (woman, man, horses), 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:pg641:7:87
# text = And besides the horses she has a foal and its mother, and the man who serves her must look after them for three whole days, and if he does not let them run away he will in the end get the choice of any horse as a present from the old woman.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
38	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
42	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	47	det	_	_
47	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beside** | present |  | the horses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | woman | a foal and reality's mother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient |
| 3 | **serve** | present | the man | woman |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute |
| 4 | **look** | must | the man |  |  |  | after horses *= horse*; day |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | man | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **run away** | infinitive | horses *= horse* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | future | man | the choice of any horse |  |  | in the end | as a present from the old woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus as present=Attribute |

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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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