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title: In a short time he returned and said, ‘My dear Prince, the horse is… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a short time he returned and said, ‘My dear Prince, the horse is most securely watched, but I have bewitched all the guards, and if you will only be careful not to touch the wall yourself, or let the horse touch it as you go out, there is no danger and the game is yours. Who acts: horse, I, you, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 46

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In a short time he returned and said, ‘My dear Prince, the horse is most securely watched, but I have bewitched all the guards, and if you will only be careful not to touch the wall yourself, or let the horse touch it as you go out, there is no danger and the game is yours.

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**Who acts:** horse, I, you, danger, game · **What happens:** return, say, watch, bewitch, be, not touch · **To what, where:** short time, horse, guards, wall, door, yours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, I, you, danger), 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:pg7277:52:46
# text = In a short time he returned and said, ‘My dear Prince, the horse is most securely watched, but I have bewitched all the guards, and if you will only be careful not to touch the wall yourself, or let the horse touch it as you go out, there is no danger and the game is yours.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	parataxis	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	advcl	_	_
53	out	out	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
55	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	56	expl	_	_
56	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	advcl	_	_
57	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	58	det	_	_
58	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
62	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
63	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | horse | a short time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **watch** | present · passive |  | the horse |  |  | time | My dear Prince *obl*; securely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **bewitch** | present · perfect | I | all guards |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guard=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **touch** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the wall |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 8 | **touch** | present |  | door |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 9 | **go out** | present | you |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **be** | present | no danger |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **is a** | present | the game | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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