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title: But the poison of the fairy lake was killing the poor horse and afte… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But the poison of the fairy lake was killing the poor horse and after trying feebly to answer to the spur, it fell down dead. Who acts: poison. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 50

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But the poison of the fairy lake was killing the poor horse and after trying feebly to answer to the spur, it fell down dead.

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**Who acts:** poison · **What happens:** kill, try, answer, fall down · **To what, where:** poor horse

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poison), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:19:50
# text = But the poison of the fairy lake was killing the poor horse and after trying feebly to answer to the spur, it fell down dead.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	feebly	feebly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	spur	spur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · progressive | the poison of the fairy lake | the poor horse |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | the poison of the fairy lake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | feebly *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the poison of the fairy lake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the spur | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to spur=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **fall down** | past | poison |  |  |  |  | dead, down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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