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title: Ye maun seat yoursel’ on that stane, and move neither hand nor fit t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye maun seat yoursel’ on that stane, and move neither hand nor fit till I come back, else I’ll never find ye again. 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.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 47

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Ye maun seat yoursel’ on that stane, and move neither hand nor fit till I come back, else I’ll never find ye again.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** move, come back, not find · **To what, where:** hand, ye

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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 (I), 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:pg503:55:47
# text = Ye maun seat yoursel’ on that stane, and move neither hand nor fit till I come back, else I’ll never find ye again.
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	maun	maun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	yoursel	yoursel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	stane	stane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
15	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’ll	'll	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obj	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | infinitive |  | neither hand nor fit |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **find** | present | I | ye |  |  | again | else *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Topic |

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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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