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title: “The hands you see floating above Will swiftly your bidding obey; If… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The hands you see floating above Will swiftly your bidding obey; If your heart dreads not conquering Love, In this place you may fearlessly stay.” Who acts: hands, bidding, heart, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 26

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“The hands you see floating above Will swiftly your bidding obey; If your heart dreads not conquering Love, In this place you may fearlessly stay.”

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**Who acts:** hands, bidding, heart, you, your · **What happens:** see, float, swiftly, obey, dread, not conquer · **To what, where:** place, Love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, bidding, heart, you), 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:pg503:23:26
# text = “The hands you see floating above Will swiftly your bidding obey; If your heart dreads not conquering Love, In this place you may fearlessly stay.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	swiftly	swiftly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	obey	obey	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dreads	dread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	conquering	conquer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	Love	Love	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	In	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	fearlessly	fearlessly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | the hands |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **float** *in a quote* | gerund | the hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swiftly** *in a quote* | future | the hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **obey** *in a quote* | present | your bidding |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dread** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | your heart |  |  | this place |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **conquer** *in a quote* | gerund | your heart *not said here* | Love |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
| 7 | **stay** *in a quote* | may | you | this place *not said here* |  |  |  | fearlessly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme place=Location |
| 8 | **bid** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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