--- title: So he paid his bill, and bought a horse with the money that remained… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he paid his bill, and bought a horse with the money that remained, and when the evening came he mounted his horse and stood in front of the inn door, determined to stay there all night. Who acts: soldier, money, evening. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, money, evening), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:22:88 # text = So he paid his bill, and bought a horse with the money that remained, and when the evening came he mounted his horse and stood in front of the inn door, determined to stay there all night. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 mounted mount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 determined determine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | past | soldier | soldier's bill | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset | | 2 | **buy** | past | soldier *not said here* | a horse | | | | with the money | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 3 | **remain** | past | the money | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | the evening | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mount** | past | soldier | soldier's horse | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 6 | **stand** | past | soldier *not said here* | | | front of the inn door | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | | 7 | **determine** | participle | soldier *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **stay** | to-infinitive | soldier *not said here* | | | there | night | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **bill** | | soldier | | | | | | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/89/) - ↑ back to [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/)