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title: But still he went on, as fast as the strength of his horse would let… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But still he went on, as fast as the strength of his horse would let him, begging his way. Who acts: man, strength. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 35

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But still he went on, as fast as the strength of his horse would let him, begging his way.

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**Who acts:** man, strength · **What happens:** go on, let, beg · **To what, where:** man, way

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, strength), 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:pg7277:20:35
# text = But still he went on, as fast as the strength of his horse would let him, begging his way.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | man |  |  |  | still | fast *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | would | the strength of man's horse | man |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | the strength of man's horse *not said here* | man's way |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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