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title: ‘“No, I don’t like talking about myself,” said the pot. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘“No, I don’t like talking about myself,” said the pot. Who acts: pot. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 6

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‘“No, I don’t like talking about myself,” said the pot.

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**Who acts:** pot · **What happens:** not do, talk, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot), 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:pg5615:5:6
# text = ‘“No, I don’t like talking about myself,” said the pot.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | present | the pot *= pot* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** *in a quote* | gerund | the pot *= pot* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the pot *= pot* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about myself=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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