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title: Get on my back, and I will gallop till my whole body is wet with per… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Get on my back, and I will gallop till my whole body is wet with perspiration, then rub it all over your skin, and no matter how hot the oil may be you will never feel it.' Who acts: you, I, whole body, matter. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependen
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 77

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Get on my back, and I will gallop till my whole body is wet with perspiration, then rub it all over your skin, and no matter how hot the oil may be you will never feel it.'

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**Who acts:** you, I, whole body, matter · **What happens:** get, gallop, be, rub, not be · **To what, where:** back, body, skin

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. 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, whole body, matter), 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:pg3027:32:77
# text = Get on my back, and I will gallop till my whole body is wet with perspiration, then rub it all over your skin, and no matter how hot the oil may be you will never feel it.'
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gallop	gallop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	rub	rub	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | my back |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source |
| 2 | **gallop** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | my whole body |  |  |  |  | with perspiration; wet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rub** | infinitive | you *not said here* | body |  | your skin | then |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over skin=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **is** | may · future | no matter |  |  |  |  | feel *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:** «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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