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title: "Now lie still, and don't mind the shaking; it's only rumbling over… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now lie still, and don't mind the shaking; it's only rumbling over the palace steps you'll be. Who acts: shaking, palace, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 106

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"Now lie still, and don't mind the shaking; it's only rumbling over the palace steps you'll be.

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**Who acts:** shaking, palace, you · **What happens:** lie, not mind, rumble, step, be · **To what, where:** shaking · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shaking, palace, you), 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:pg7885:10:106
# text = "Now lie still, and don't mind the shaking; it's only rumbling over the palace steps you'll be.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	rumbling	rumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	steps	step	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  | now; still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | the shaking |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shaking=Theme |
| 3 | **rumble** *in a quote* | present · progressive | shaking |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **step** *in a quote* | present | the palace |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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