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title: “Well, you are just the right one to watch the hay, you who have nev… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, you are just the right one to watch the hay, you who have never learned anything but how to sit among the ashes and bake yourself!” said they. Who acts: you, others. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 10

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“Well, you are just the right one to watch the hay, you who have never learned anything but how to sit among the ashes and bake yourself!” said they.

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**Who acts:** you, others · **What happens:** be, watch, not learn, sit, bake, say · **To what, where:** right one, hay, anything, ashes, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, others), 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:pg503:48:10
# text = “Well, you are just the right one to watch the hay, you who have never learned anything but how to sit among the ashes and bake yourself!” said they.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | the right one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | the hay |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | anything |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
| 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the ashes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among ash=Location |
| 5 | **bake** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Product |
| 6 | **say** *speech: express* | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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