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title: Well, never mind, that has happened to all of us, and it really is n… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, never mind, that has happened to all of us, and it really is not a bad life. Who acts: you, that, tunny. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 26

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Well, never mind, that has happened to all of us, and it really is not a bad life.

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**Who acts:** you, that, tunny · **What happens:** not mind, happen, not be · **To what, where:** bad life

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, tunny), 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:pg3027:25:26
# text = Well, never mind, that has happened to all of us, and it really is not a bad life.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** | present · perfect | that |  |  |  |  | to all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | tunny | a bad life |  |  |  |  | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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