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title: ‘Never mind, let us make haste and get the wedding over before anyth… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Never mind, let us make haste and get the wedding over before anything else is lost.’ Who acts: you, us. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 29

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‘Never mind, let us make haste and get the wedding over before anything else is lost.’

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** not mind, let, make, get over, lose · **To what, where:** us, haste, wedding, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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, us), 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:pg540:4:29
# text = ‘Never mind, let us make haste and get the wedding over before anything else is lost.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | us *not said here* | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 4 | **get over** | infinitive | us *not said here* | the wedding |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wedding=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lose** | present · passive |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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