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title: Says the Bull to her: "Yonder we must be this night, for my second b… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Says the Bull to her: "Yonder we must be this night, for my second brother lives yonder;" and they were at the place directly. Who acts: we, second brother, daughters. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 102

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Says the Bull to her: "Yonder we must be this night, for my second brother lives yonder;" and they were at the place directly.

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**Who acts:** we, second brother, daughters · **What happens:** say, be, live · **To what, where:** Bull, lady, night, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (we, second brother, daughters), 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:pg14241:16:102
# text = Says the Bull to her: "Yonder we must be this night, for my second brother lives yonder;" and they were at the place directly.
1	Says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
29	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | the Bull | lady |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bull=Topic to she=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | we | this night |  |  |  | yonder *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | present | my second brother |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | the place |  | directly *property* | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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