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title: “Oh, you mustn’t mind a little pain,” said the wolverine, “it will s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 22

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“Oh, you mustn’t mind a little pain,” said the wolverine, “it will soon be over, and then you will see all sorts of things you have never dreamt of.”

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**Who acts:** you, wolverine, pain · **What happens:** not mind, say, be, see, not dreamt, sort · **To what, where:** little pain, sorts, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wolverine, pain), 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:pg3282:17:22
# text = “Oh, you mustn’t mind a little pain,” said the wolverine, “it will soon be over, and then you will see all sorts of things you have never dreamt of.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | must | you | a little pain |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wolverine |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | pain |  |  |  |  | over, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | future | you | all sorts of things |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **dreamt** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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