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title: ‘See if I don’t make her change her mind pretty soon!’ said the wick… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘See if I don’t make her change her mind pretty soon!’ said the wicked King with a chuckle. Who acts: I, Delicia, wicked King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 156

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‘See if I don’t make her change her mind pretty soon!’ said the wicked King with a chuckle.

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**Who acts:** I, Delicia, wicked King · **What happens:** see, not make, not change, say, mind · **To what, where:** Delicia, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Delicia, wicked King), 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:pg540:22:156
# text = ‘See if I don’t make her change her mind pretty soon!’ said the wicked King with a chuckle.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chuckle	chuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | I | Delicia |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **change** | infinitive | Delicia *not said here* | Delicia's mind |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wicked King |  |  |  |  | with a chuckle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **mind** |  | Delicia |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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