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title: “Suppose it is not mine at all; supposing—Ah, the scoundrels!” — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Suppose it is not mine at all; supposing—Ah, the scoundrels!” Who acts: you, basket. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 66

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“Suppose it is not mine at all; supposing—Ah, the scoundrels!”

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**Who acts:** you, basket · **What happens:** suppose, not be · **To what, where:** scoundrels, matter, all · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, basket), 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:pg3282:9:66
# text = “Suppose it is not mine at all; supposing—Ah, the scoundrels!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	ccomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	scoundrels	scoundrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the scoundrels |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | basket | matter |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **suppose** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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