--- title: Shall we eat and drink, or shall we follow the runaways?’ and the ho… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Shall we eat and drink, or shall we follow the runaways?’ and the horse replied, ‘Whether you eat or don’t eat, drink or don’t drink, follow them or stay at home, matters nothing now, for you can never, never catch them.’ Who acts: we, horse, you. 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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 (we, horse, you), 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:pg641:7:153 # text = Shall we eat and drink, or shall we follow the runaways?’ and the horse replied, ‘Whether you eat or don’t eat, drink or don’t drink, follow them or stay at home, matters nothing now, for you can never, never catch them.’ 1 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 runaways runaway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 replied reply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 26 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 32 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 43 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 42 obj _ _ 44 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 46 for for SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 48 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 49 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 52 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 51 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ _ 53 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | shall | we | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **drink** | infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **follow** | shall | we | the runaways | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runaway=Theme | | 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle | the horse | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **eat** | present | you | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **drink** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **drink** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **follow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | horses *= horse* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 10 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | home | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 11 | **matter** | present | you *not said here* | nothing | | | now | | tree rules | | 12 | **not** **catch** | can | you | horses *= horse* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/152/) - next →: [sentence 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/154/) - ↑ back to [The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/)