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title: He will come too near the horse's hoof, and, full of anger, I shall… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He will come too near the horse's hoof, and, full of anger, I shall call to my wife, 'Take the baby; take him!' Who acts: boy, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 2

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He will come too near the horse's hoof, and, full of anger, I shall call to my wife, 'Take the baby; take him!'

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**Who acts:** boy, I · **What happens:** come, call, take · **To what, where:** hoof, wife, baby, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, I), 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:pg7128:11:2
# text = He will come too near the horse's hoof, and, full of anger, I shall call to my wife, 'Take the baby; take him!'
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | boy |  |  | the horse's hoof |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near hoof=Location |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | shall | I |  | my wife |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | the baby |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  |  | boy |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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