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title: And if everything round about ye turns blue I hae beated the deil; b… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And if everything round about ye turns blue I hae beated the deil; but should a’ things turn red he’ll hae conquered me.” Who acts: everything, I, ’ things, maun. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 48

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And if everything round about ye turns blue I hae beated the deil; but should a’ things turn red he’ll hae conquered me.”

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**Who acts:** everything, I, ’ things, maun · **What happens:** turn, beate, hae, conquer · **To what, where:** deil, me

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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 (everything, I, ’ things, maun), 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:pg503:55:48
# text = And if everything round about ye turns blue I hae beated the deil; but should a’ things turn red he’ll hae conquered me.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod	_	_
7	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
8	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	hae	hae	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	beated	beate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	deil	deil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hae	hae	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
25	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | everything |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beate** | present | I | the deil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | should | a ’ things |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hae** | future | maun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **conquer** | past | maun *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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