--- title: Says the bull to her: “Here ye maun stay till I gang and fight the d… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Says the bull to her: “Here ye maun stay till I gang and fight the deil. Who acts: I. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/55/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Black Bull of Norroway](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/55/) / 46 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 46 Says the bull to her: “Here ye maun stay till I gang and fight the deil. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** say, stay, gang, fight · **To what, where:** bull, deil · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:55:46 # text = Says the bull to her: “Here ye maun stay till I gang and fight the deil. 1 Says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 7 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 9 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 compound _ _ 10 maun maun NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 11 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 12 till till SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gang gang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 deil deil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | the bull | | | | to lady | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | present | | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **gang** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fight** *in a quote* | present | I *not said here* | the deil | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deil=Co-Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/55/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/55/47/) - ↑ back to [The Black Bull of Norroway](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/55/)