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title: ‘Well, if your business be not pressing, tarry awhile in my tent.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, if your business be not pressing, tarry awhile in my tent.’ Who acts: business, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 57

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‘Well, if your business be not pressing, tarry awhile in my tent.’

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**Who acts:** business, you · **What happens:** not be, tarry · **To what, where:** tent

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (business, you), 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:pg540:7:57
# text = ‘Well, if your business be not pressing, tarry awhile in my tent.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive | your business *not said here* |  |  |  |  | press *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tarry** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | my tent |  | awhile *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=Location |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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