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title: If it bruises your knees never mind; you are on the road to fortune. — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If it bruises your knees never mind; you are on the road to fortune. Who acts: stone, knees, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 100

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If it bruises your knees never mind; you are on the road to fortune.

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**Who acts:** stone, knees, you · **What happens:** bruise, not mind, be, fortune · **To what, where:** knees, road

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (stone, knees, 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:pg2435:15:100
# text = If it bruises your knees never mind; you are on the road to fortune.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bruises	bruise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fortune	fortune	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bruise** | present | stone | your knees |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument knee=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **mind** | infinitive | your knees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  | the road |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fortune** | to-infinitive | stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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