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title: ‘We must bow three times eastwards and say “Mu...mu...mu...”’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘We must bow three times eastwards and say “Mu...mu...mu...”’ Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 78

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‘We must bow three times eastwards and say “Mu...mu...mu...”’

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** bow, say · **To what, where:** times eastwards, Mu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:7:78
# text = ‘We must bow three times eastwards and say “Mu...mu...mu...”’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	eastwards	eastward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Mu	mu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	mu	mu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	mu	mu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | must | We | times eastwards |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eastward=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | We *not said here* | Mu and mu and mu |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mu=Topic |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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