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title: Eat out of my right ear," says the Black Bull, "and drink out of my… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Eat out of my right ear," says the Black Bull, "and drink out of my left ear, and set by your leaving." Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 95

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Eat out of my right ear," says the Black Bull, "and drink out of my left ear, and set by your leaving."

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** eat out, say, drink out, set, leave · **To what, where:** right ear, Black Bull, left ear · **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 (you, your), 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:pg14241:16:95
# text = Eat out of my right ear," says the Black Bull, "and drink out of my left ear, and set by your leaving."
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat out** | imperative | you *not said here* | my right ear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | the Black Bull |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bull=Topic |
| 3 | **drink out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my left ear |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | your |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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:** «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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