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title: But mind not to stir to-night no matter how you get bitten and stung… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But mind not to stir to-night no matter how you get bitten and stung, or else you will work great mischief to yourself." Who acts: you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 139

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But mind not to stir to-night no matter how you get bitten and stung, or else you will work great mischief to yourself."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not mind, stir, bite, sting, work · **To what, where:** matter, you, great mischief, yourself

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg14241:26:139
# text = But mind not to stir to-night no matter how you get bitten and stung, or else you will work great mischief to yourself."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stir** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | no matter |  |  | night |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus matter=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bite** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **sting** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **work** | future | you | great mischief | yourself |  |  | else *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent mischief=Material |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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