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title: “Eat out o’ my right lug,” says the Black Bull, “and drink out o’ my… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Eat out o’ my right lug,” says the Black Bull, “and drink out o’ my left lug, and set by your leavings.” Who acts: you, Black Bull. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 29

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“Eat out o’ my right lug,” says the Black Bull, “and drink out o’ my left lug, and set by your leavings.”

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**Who acts:** you, Black Bull · **What happens:** eat out, say, drink out, set · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Black Bull), 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:pg503:55:29
# text = “Eat out o’ my right lug,” says the Black Bull, “and drink out o’ my left lug, and set by your leavings.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	11	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lug	lug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lug	lug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	leavings	leaving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat out** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Black Bull |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink out** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Black Bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of my left lug | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of lug=Source |
| 4 | **set** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by your leavings | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by leaving=Destination |

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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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