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title: “Yonder we maun be this night,” quo’ the bull; “for my auld brither… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yonder we maun be this night,” quo’ the bull; “for my auld brither lives yonder”; and presently they were at the place. Who acts: we, quo bull, sae. 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 32

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“Yonder we maun be this night,” quo’ the bull; “for my auld brither lives yonder”; and presently they were at the place.

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**Who acts:** we, quo bull, sae · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** night, place

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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 (we, quo bull, sae), 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:pg503:55:32
# text = “Yonder we maun be this night,” quo’ the bull; “for my auld brither lives yonder”; and presently they were at the place.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	maun	maun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	quo	quo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	brither	brither	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
21	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## 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* | infinitive | we | this night |  |  |  | yonder *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the quo bull and the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for my auld brither; yonder *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | sae |  |  | the place |  | presently *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 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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