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title: ‘Don’t make such a mistake again; find me something that it will be… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Don’t make such a mistake again; find me something that it will be quite impossible for her to do,’ she said. Who acts: you, it, Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 89

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‘Don’t make such a mistake again; find me something that it will be quite impossible for her to do,’ she said.

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**Who acts:** you, it, Queen · **What happens:** not make, find, be, do, ', say · **To what, where:** mistake, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (you, it, Queen), 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:pg540:24:89
# text = ‘Don’t make such a mistake again; find me something that it will be quite impossible for her to do,’ she said.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | such mistake |  |  | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme something=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | future | it |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **'** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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