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title: Lie down here, and I will throw these sacks over you; and keep still… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Lie down here, and I will throw these sacks over you; and keep still for your life, whatever happens.' Who acts: you, I, whatever. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 11

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Lie down here, and I will throw these sacks over you; and keep still for your life, whatever happens.'

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**Who acts:** you, I, whatever · **What happens:** lie down, throw, keep, happen · **To what, where:** sacks

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, whatever), 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:pg3027:19:11
# text = Lie down here, and I will throw these sacks over you; and keep still for your life, whatever happens.'
1	Lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | future | I | this sacks |  |  |  | over you | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme over you=Destination |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | still | for your life | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **happen** | present | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:** «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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