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title: And they made up their minds that—let her scream as loudly as she mi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And they made up their minds that—let her scream as loudly as she might—they would take no notice. Who acts: men, princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 62

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And they made up their minds that—let her scream as loudly as she might—they would take no notice.

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**Who acts:** men, princess · **What happens:** make up, let, scream, take, mind · **To what, where:** minds, princess, notice

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:1589`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:18:62
# text = And they made up their minds that—let her scream as loudly as she might—they would take no notice.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
8	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	scream	scream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | men *= man* | men's minds |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | infinitive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | would | men *= man* | no notice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 5 | **mind** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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