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title: The said Man-Mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The said Man-Mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk or lie down in a meadow or field of corn. Who acts: said Man Mountain, Mountain. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 26

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The said Man-Mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk or lie down in a meadow or field of corn.

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**Who acts:** said Man Mountain, Mountain · **What happens:** say, confine, not offer, walk, lie down · **To what, where:** walks, principal high roads, meadow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (said Man Mountain, Mountain), 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:pg503:45:26
# text = The said Man-Mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk or lie down in a meadow or field of corn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
3	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	confine	confine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **confine** | shall | the said Man Mountain | Mountain's walks |  | our principal high roads |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walk=Theme to road=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **offer** | infinitive | the said Man Mountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the said Man Mountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lie down** | infinitive | the said Man Mountain *not said here* |  |  | a meadow or field of corn |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location |
| 6 | **walk** |  | Mountain |  |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act 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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