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title: Were there no stones on the hillside that you should run back to get… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Were there no stones on the hillside that you should run back to get them, you senseless one?' he cried; 'you are not fit to herd sheep. Who acts: hillside, you, stone. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 53

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Were there no stones on the hillside that you should run back to get them, you senseless one?' he cried; 'you are not fit to herd sheep.

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**Who acts:** hillside, you, stone · **What happens:** run back, get, be, cry, not be, herd · **To what, where:** hillsides, senseless one, sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hillside, you, stone), 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:pg3027:13:53
# text = Were there no stones on the hillside that you should run back to get them, you senseless one?' he cried; 'you are not fit to herd sheep.
1	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	senseless	senseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	herd	herd	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run back** | should | the hillside |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | the hillside *not said here* | hillsides *= hillside* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | you | senseless one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | stone |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **herd** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | sheep |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |

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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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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