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title: “Of course you won’t be able to walk for some time; you must not exp… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Of course you won’t be able to walk for some time; you must not expect THAT,” she continued. Who acts: you, Kisa. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 49

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“Of course you won’t be able to walk for some time; you must not expect THAT,” she continued.

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**Who acts:** you, Kisa · **What happens:** not be, walk, not expect, continue · **To what, where:** THAT · **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 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Kisa), 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:pg3282:28:49
# text = “Of course you won’t be able to walk for some time; you must not expect THAT,” she continued.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
19	THAT	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **expect** *in a quote* | must | you | THAT |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **continue** | past | Kisa |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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