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title: “Surely I can have done no great wrong in just kicking a tiresome an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Surely I can have done no great wrong in just kicking a tiresome animal! Who acts: Darling. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 40

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“Surely I can have done no great wrong in just kicking a tiresome animal!

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**Who acts:** Darling · **What happens:** do, kick · **To what, where:** great wrong, tiresome animal

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling), 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:pg503:39:40
# text = “Surely I can have done no great wrong in just kicking a tiresome animal!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | can · perfect | Darling | no great wrong |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kick** *in a quote* | gerund | Darling *not said here* | a tiresome animal |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent animal=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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