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title: ‘Did you see no one pass by on horseback, reverend father?’ he asked… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Did you see no one pass by on horseback, reverend father?’ he asked the monk. Who acts: you, father, horseback. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 57

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‘Did you see no one pass by on horseback, reverend father?’ he asked the monk.

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**Who acts:** you, father, horseback · **What happens:** see, ask, pass · **To what, where:** one pass, monk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father, horseback), 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:pg7277:28:57
# text = ‘Did you see no one pass by on horseback, reverend father?’ he asked the monk.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	reverend	reverend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · do-support | you | no one pass and reverend father |  |  |  | by horseback | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pass=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | father |  | the monk |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent monk=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pass** |  | horseback |  |  |  |  |  | nom pass «act transitive»: by=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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