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title: And lay me on a bank to dry, That I may look pretty, When somebody p… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And lay me on a bank to dry, That I may look pretty, When somebody passes by.” Who acts: you, That, somebody. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 20

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And lay me on a bank to dry, That I may look pretty, When somebody passes by.”

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**Who acts:** you, That, somebody · **What happens:** lay, dry, look, pass by · **To what, where:** me, bank

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, That, somebody), 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:pg7439:49:20
# text = And lay me on a bank to dry, That I may look pretty, When somebody passes by.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	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* | me |  | a bank |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on bank=Destination |
| 2 | **dry** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | may | That |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pass by** | present | somebody |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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