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title: "Stay where thou art, and sit beneath the earth all thy days, so lon… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Stay where thou art, and sit beneath the earth all thy days, so long as the sun is in the sky." Who acts: you, sun. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 12

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"Stay where thou art, and sit beneath the earth all thy days, so long as the sun is in the sky."

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**Who acts:** you, sun · **What happens:** stay, sit, be · **To what, where:** earth

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun), 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:pg29672:21:12
# text = "Stay where thou art, and sit beneath the earth all thy days, so long as the sun is in the sky."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the earth | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath earth=Location |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the sun |  |  |  |  | as the sky | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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