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title: ‘I am Stan Bolovan, who eats rocks all night, and in the day feeds o… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am Stan Bolovan, who eats rocks all night, and in the day feeds on the flowers of the mountain; and if you meddle with those sheep I will carve a cross on your back.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 62

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‘I am Stan Bolovan, who eats rocks all night, and in the day feeds on the flowers of the mountain; and if you meddle with those sheep I will carve a cross on your back.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** be, eat, feed, meddle, carve · **To what, where:** Stan, rocks, cross, back

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg641:13:62
# text = ‘I am Stan Bolovan, who eats rocks all night, and in the day feeds on the flowers of the mountain; and if you meddle with those sheep I will carve a cross on your back.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	Bolovan	Bolovan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	meddle	meddle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	carve	carve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | Stan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present |  | rocks |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient |
| 3 | **feed** | present |  |  |  |  | day | on the flowers of the mountain | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on flower=Patient |
| 4 | **meddle** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | with that sheep | tree rules |
| 5 | **carve** | future | I | a cross |  | your back |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cross=Theme on back=Destination |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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