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title: “Here, dancers come and dance your jigs,” she called, “and pipers, p… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Here, dancers come and dance your jigs,” she called, “and pipers, pipe you well, for here's my own Florentine, come back to me to stay for he's brought no bonny boy with him this time.” Who acts: dancers, queen, your. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with i
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 31

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“Here, dancers come and dance your jigs,” she called, “and pipers, pipe you well, for here's my own Florentine, come back to me to stay for he's brought no bonny boy with him this time.”

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**Who acts:** dancers, queen, your · **What happens:** come, dance, call, be, come back, stay · **To what, where:** jigs, pipers, own Florentine, queen, Coo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancers, queen, your), 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:pg7439:35:31
# text = “Here, dancers come and dance your jigs,” she called, “and pipers, pipe you well, for here's my own Florentine, come back to me to stay for he's brought no bonny boy with him this time.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	jigs	jig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pipers	piper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Florentine	florentine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
40	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
41	bonny	bonny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nmod	_	_
45	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | dancers |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** *in a quote* | present | dancers *not said here* | your jigs |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jig=Theme |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | queen | pipers and pipe |  |  |  | well *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | queen *not said here* | my own Florentine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | queen |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **stay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Coo |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination boy=Theme |
| 8 | **jig** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom jig «communication intransitive»: 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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