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title: She set hersel’ down on the stane, and by-and-by a’ round her turned… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She set hersel’ down on the stane, and by-and-by a’ round her turned blue. Who acts: wad. 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 49

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She set hersel’ down on the stane, and by-and-by a’ round her turned blue.

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**Who acts:** wad · **What happens:** set down, turn · **To what, where:** hersel, stane

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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 (wad), 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:pg503:55:49
# text = She set hersel’ down on the stane, and by-and-by a’ round her turned blue.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hersel	hersel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stane	stane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set down** | past | wad | hersel |  | the stane |  | down *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hersel=Theme on stane=Destination |
| 2 | **turn** | past | wad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a ’ round wad; blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by '=Trajectory |

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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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