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title: Yonder we must be this night," quoth the Bull; "for my elder brother… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yonder we must be this night," quoth the Bull; "for my elder brother lives yonder;" and presently they were at the place. Who acts: we, you, daughters. 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 cl
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 98

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Yonder we must be this night," quoth the Bull; "for my elder brother lives yonder;" and presently they were at the place.

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**Who acts:** we, you, daughters · **What happens:** be, quoth, live · **To what, where:** night, Bull, 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, you, 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:pg14241:16:98
# text = Yonder we must be this night," quoth the Bull; "for my elder brother lives yonder;" and presently they were at the place.
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
19	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
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	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | we | this night |  |  |  | yonder *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **quoth** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the Bull |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for my elder brother; yonder *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | the place |  | presently *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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