--- title: ‘If you will stay with me to-night,’ said the old man, ‘I have a boo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘If you will stay with me to-night,’ said the old man, ‘I have a book of the history of the world, and I shall know where they are before daylight, if there is such a place in it at all.’ Who acts: you, old man, I, men. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old man, I, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:45:113 # text = ‘If you will stay with me to-night,’ said the old man, ‘I have a book of the history of the world, and I shall know where they are before daylight, if there is such a place in it at all.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 parataxis _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 before before ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 if if SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 42 expl _ _ 42 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 43 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 45 det:predet _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nmod _ _ 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | | | | night | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | present | I | a book of the history of the world | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient | | 4 | **know** | shall | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | men *= man* | | | | before daylight | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | such place in world at all | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/114/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/)