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title: Stay here with me and be my friend, and we will play delightful game… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Stay here with me and be my friend, and we will play delightful games together, and every day we will go and gather strawberries. Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 27

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Stay here with me and be my friend, and we will play delightful games together, and every day we will go and gather strawberries.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** stay, be, play, go, gather · **To what, where:** friend, delightful games, strawberries

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. 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), 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:pg641:2:27
# text = Stay here with me and be my friend, and we will play delightful games together, and every day we will go and gather strawberries.
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
14	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | future | we | delightful games |  |  |  | together *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | future | we |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **gather** | infinitive | we *not said here* | strawberries |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=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 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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