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title: “My friendly sea-weeds, I order you to stay here stretched upon the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “My friendly sea-weeds, I order you to stay here stretched upon the sand until the Fairy of the Desert comes to take you away.” Who acts: friendly sea weeds. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 32

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“My friendly sea-weeds, I order you to stay here stretched upon the sand until the Fairy of the Desert comes to take you away.”

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**Who acts:** friendly sea weeds · **What happens:** order, stay, stretch, come, take away · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friendly sea weeds), 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:pg503:7:32
# text = “My friendly sea-weeds, I order you to stay here stretched upon the sand until the Fairy of the Desert comes to take you away.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	order	order	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	until	until	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** *in a quote* | present | My friendly sea weeds |  | you |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | My friendly sea weeds *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stretch** *in a quote* | participle | My friendly sea weeds *not said here* |  |  |  | until the Fairy of the Desert | upon the sand | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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