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title: The auld wife bade her stay that day, and gang and look out o’ her b… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The auld wife bade her stay that day, and gang and look out o’ her back door, and see what she could see. Who acts: bade. 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 8

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The auld wife bade her stay that day, and gang and look out o’ her back door, and see what she could see.

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**Who acts:** bade · **What happens:** gang, look out, see, stay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bade), 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:pg503:55:8
# text = The auld wife bade her stay that day, and gang and look out o’ her back door, and see what she could see.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gang	gang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	o	o	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	back	back	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gang** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ' bade's back door | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | could | bade |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stay** |  | bade |  |  |  |  |  | nom stay «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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