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title: “Never mind that,” said the King; “as everyone else has come to the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never mind that,” said the King; “as everyone else has come to the palace, let him come too.” Who acts: King, everyone. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 109

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“Never mind that,” said the King; “as everyone else has come to the palace, let him come too.”

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**Who acts:** King, everyone · **What happens:** not mind, say, come, let · **To what, where:** that, palace, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, everyone), 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:pg503:48:109
# text = “Never mind that,” said the King; “as everyone else has come to the palace, let him come too.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | everyone |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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