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title: Then John put spurs to his horse, calling with all his might ‘Stop!… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then John put spurs to his horse, calling with all his might ‘Stop! stop!’ Who acts: John. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 92

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Then John put spurs to his horse, calling with all his might ‘Stop! stop!’

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** put, call, stop · **To what, where:** spurs, stop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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:pg7277:22:92
# text = Then John put spurs to his horse, calling with all his might ‘Stop! stop!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
17	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | John | spurs |  |  | then | to John's horse | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | might | John *not said here* | stop |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stop=Eventuality |

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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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