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title: What'll I do? what'll I do to get that pottle o' brains, now I'm alo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What'll I do? what'll I do to get that pottle o' brains, now I'm alone in the world?" Who acts: I. 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 46

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What'll I do? what'll I do to get that pottle o' brains, now I'm alone in the world?"

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do, get, be · **To what, where:** brains, world

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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 (I), 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:pg14241:26:46
# text = What'll I do? what'll I do to get that pottle o' brains, now I'm alone in the world?"
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	pottle	pottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
16	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | that pottle's brains |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  | the world | now | alone *property* | tree rules |

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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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