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title: You can sit on my back, and we will fly far away from the ugly mole… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You can sit on my back, and we will fly far away from the ugly mole and his dark house, over the mountains, to the warm countries where the sun shines more brightly than here, where it is always summer, and there are always beautiful flowers. Who acts: You, we, sun, country. A sentence of «The Yello
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 222

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You can sit on my back, and we will fly far away from the ugly mole and his dark house, over the mountains, to the warm countries where the sun shines more brightly than here, where it is always summer, and there are always beautiful flowers.

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**Who acts:** You, we, sun, country, beautiful flowers · **What happens:** sit, fly, shine, be · **To what, where:** back, mountains, summer

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we, sun, country), 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:pg640:47:222
# text = You can sit on my back, and we will fly far away from the ugly mole and his dark house, over the mountains, to the warm countries where the sun shines more brightly than here, where it is always summer, and there are always beautiful flowers.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	44	advmod	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	44	advmod	_	_
44	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	48	expl	_	_
48	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
49	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	50	advmod	_	_
50	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | can | You |  |  | my back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | future | we |  |  | the mountains |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over mountain=Location |
| 3 | **shine** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | country | summer |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **does** | present | beautiful flowers |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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.

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