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title: “Oh, we shall do all the same things over again—play at slinging, an… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, we shall do all the same things over again—play at slinging, and, this time, you shall break my leg, Pivi!” Who acts: we, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 116

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“Oh, we shall do all the same things over again—play at slinging, and, this time, you shall break my leg, Pivi!”

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**Who acts:** we, you · **What happens:** do, play, sling, break · **To what, where:** same things, leg

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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:pg3282:19:116
# text = “Oh, we shall do all the same things over again—play at slinging, and, this time, you shall break my leg, Pivi!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	slinging	sling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | we | all same things |  |  | again |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sling** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **break** *in a quote* | shall | you | my leg |  |  | time |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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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