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title: His father, who was delighted at the prospect of getting rid of him,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His father, who was delighted at the prospect of getting rid of him, had the cock shod, and when it was ready Jack my Hedgehog mounted on its back and rode off to the forest, followed by all the pigs and asses which he had promised to look after. Who acts: father, prospect, cock, bagpipe. A sentence
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 19

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His father, who was delighted at the prospect of getting rid of him, had the cock shod, and when it was ready Jack my Hedgehog mounted on its back and rode off to the forest, followed by all the pigs and asses which he had promised to look after.

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**Who acts:** father, prospect, cock, bagpipe · **What happens:** be, get, have, shoe, mount, ride off · **To what, where:** prospect, ready Jack, back, forest, pigs

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, prospect, cock, bagpipe), 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:pg7277:48:19
# text = His father, who was delighted at the prospect of getting rid of him, had the cock shod, and when it was ready Jack my Hedgehog mounted on its back and rode off to the forest, followed by all the pigs and asses which he had promised to look after.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shod	shoe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl:agent	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	after	after	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jack's father |  |  | the prospect |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | the prospect *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | past | Jack's father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shoe** | past | the cock |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | bagpipe | ready Jack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mount** | participle | Jack's father *not said here* |  |  | bagpipe's back |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination |
| 7 | **ride off** | past | Jack's father *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory |
| 8 | **follow** | participle | Jack's father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect · passive |  | all pigs and asses |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 10 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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