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title: There is a little horse in the stable which will not let anyone go n… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a little horse in the stable which will not let anyone go near it, and it has already kicked to death several people who have tried to groom it.’ Who acts: little horse, several people. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 79

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There is a little horse in the stable which will not let anyone go near it, and it has already kicked to death several people who have tried to groom it.’

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**Who acts:** little horse, several people · **What happens:** be, not let, go, kick, try, groom · **To what, where:** little horse, horse

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little horse, several people), 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:pg7277:21:79
# text = There is a little horse in the stable which will not let anyone go near it, and it has already kicked to death several people who have tried to groom it.’
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	already	already	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	kicked	kick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:agent	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	groom	groom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a little horse in the stable |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **let** | future |  | a little horse in the stable |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | a little horse in the stable *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near horse | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near it=Location |
| 4 | **kick** | present · perfect · passive | several people | horse |  |  |  | to death *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to death=Result |
| 5 | **try** | present · perfect | several people |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **groom** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | several people *not said here* | horse |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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