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title: John’s horse, which had carried him so well, sank down from fatigue,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: John’s horse, which had carried him so well, sank down from fatigue, and the little soldier sat sadly on the shore, watching the coach which was fast disappearing on the horizon. Who acts: horse, little soldier, coach. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 96

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John’s horse, which had carried him so well, sank down from fatigue, and the little soldier sat sadly on the shore, watching the coach which was fast disappearing on the horizon.

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**Who acts:** horse, little soldier, coach · **What happens:** carry, sink down, sit, watch, be, disappear · **To what, where:** horse, fatigue, shore, coach, horizon

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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 (horse, little soldier, coach), 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:pg7277:22:96
# text = John’s horse, which had carried him so well, sank down from fatigue, and the little soldier sat sadly on the shore, watching the coach which was fast disappearing on the horizon.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | John's horse |  |  |  | well *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value |
| 2 | **sink down** | past | John's horse |  |  | fatigue |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the little soldier |  |  | the shore |  | sadly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund | the little soldier *not said here* | the coach |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the coach |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **disappear** | gerund | the coach *not said here* |  |  | the horizon |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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