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title: "Go on, go on," said his wife; "never mind Old Tom." — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Go on, go on," said his wife; "never mind Old Tom." Who acts: wife. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 28

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"Go on, go on," said his wife; "never mind Old Tom."

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** go on, say, not mind · **To what, where:** Old Tom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg14241:29:28
# text = "Go on, go on," said his wife; "never mind Old Tom."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
16	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tom's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Old Tom |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=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:** «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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