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title: “Oh! yes; so far as that is concerned, I am not ill off,” said the s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh! yes; so far as that is concerned, I am not ill off,” said the sheriff. Who acts: that, sheriff. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 48

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“Oh! yes; so far as that is concerned, I am not ill off,” said the sheriff.

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**Who acts:** that, sheriff · **What happens:** be, not be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, sheriff), 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:pg503:18:48
# text = “Oh! yes; so far as that is concerned, I am not ill off,” said the sheriff.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the sheriff *= sheriff* |  |  |  |  | far, ill *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the sheriff |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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