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title: To-day you shall stay at home and mind my old mother who is sick, pe… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To-day you shall stay at home and mind my old mother who is sick, perhaps you will be able to drive flies off her face, if you can't drive beasts away from sheep!' Who acts: you, old mother. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 54

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To-day you shall stay at home and mind my old mother who is sick, perhaps you will be able to drive flies off her face, if you can't drive beasts away from sheep!'

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**Who acts:** you, old mother · **What happens:** stay, mind, be, drive, not drive away · **To what, where:** home, old mother, flies, face, beasts

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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 (you, old mother), 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:pg3027:13:54
# text = To-day you shall stay at home and mind my old mother who is sick, perhaps you will be able to drive flies off her face, if you can't drive beasts away from sheep!'
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
35	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | shall | you |  |  | home | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 2 | **mind** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my old mother |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | my old mother |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | able, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **drive** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | flies |  | mother's face |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fly=Theme off face=Trajectory |
| 6 | **not** **drive away** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | beasts |  |  |  | from sheep; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beast=Theme from sheep=Trajectory |

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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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