--- title: ‘Well, never mind now--go to sleep,’ said he, ‘and to-morrow I will… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well, never mind now--go to sleep,’ said he, ‘and to-morrow I will go and pull up the pumpkin tree, and that will punish her for treating you so badly.’ Who acts: husband, I, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, I, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:20:81 # text = ‘Well, never mind now--go to sleep,’ said he, ‘and to-morrow I will go and pull up the pumpkin tree, and that will punish her for treating you so badly.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 pumpkin pumpkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 punish punish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 treating treat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mind** | infinitive | | | | | now | | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | | | | sleep | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | husband | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** | future | I | | | morrow | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **pull up** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the pumpkin tree | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 6 | **punish** | future | that | sister | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 7 | **treat** | gerund | that *not said here* | | you | | | badly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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. **Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/82/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/)