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title: Well, I’ll go back again, and bear all the pummelling and ill-usage… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, I’ll go back again, and bear all the pummelling and ill-usage of Cicely rather than miss the opportunity of being Lord Mayor!” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 32

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Well, I’ll go back again, and bear all the pummelling and ill-usage of Cicely rather than miss the opportunity of being Lord Mayor!”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go back, bear, miss, be, use · **To what, where:** pummelling, opportunity, Cicely

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg503:29:32
# text = Well, I’ll go back again, and bear all the pummelling and ill-usage of Cicely rather than miss the opportunity of being Lord Mayor!”
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bear	bear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pummelling	pummelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	usage	usage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Cicely	Cicely	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	miss	miss	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | future | I |  |  |  | again |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | infinitive |  | all pummelling and ill usage of Cicely |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pummelling=Patient |
| 3 | **miss** | infinitive |  | the opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of Lord | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | Cicely |  |  |  |  | nom usage «act transitive»: of=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 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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