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title: Then lay us in the sun, and do not come near us till the sun’s rays… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then lay us in the sun, and do not come near us till the sun’s rays shall have dried off the dew,’ answered the other fish. Who acts: you, sun. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 77

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Then lay us in the sun, and do not come near us till the sun’s rays shall have dried off the dew,’ answered the other fish.

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**Who acts:** you, sun · **What happens:** lay, not come, dry off, answer, ray · **To what, where:** us, sun, rays, other fish

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun), 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:pg641:35:77
# text = Then lay us in the sun, and do not come near us till the sun’s rays shall have dried off the dew,’ answered the other fish.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
27	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  | the sun | then |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme in sun=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **come** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near we=Location |
| 3 | **dry off** | shall · perfect · passive |  | the sun's rays |  |  |  | off the dew | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* |  | the other fish |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fish=Eventuality |
| 5 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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