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title: Only give me a horse for my journey, and I wager you’ll soon see me… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Only give me a horse for my journey, and I wager you’ll soon see me back again.’ Who acts: you, I, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 50

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Only give me a horse for my journey, and I wager you’ll soon see me back again.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, my · **What happens:** give, wager, see back, journey · **To what, where:** horse, me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, my), 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:pg7277:27:50
# text = Only give me a horse for my journey, and I wager you’ll soon see me back again.’
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wager	wager	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | a horse | me |  |  | for my journey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=Theme for journey=Asset |
| 2 | **wager** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **see back** | future | you | me |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 4 | **journey** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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