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title: ‘It sha’n’t make me blink, though, and I shall keep quite cool and c… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘It sha’n’t make me blink, though, and I shall keep quite cool and collected.’ Who acts: sun, me, I. 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 69

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‘It sha’n’t make me blink, though, and I shall keep quite cool and collected.’

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**Who acts:** sun, me, I · **What happens:** not make, not blink, keep, collect · **To what, where:** me

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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 (sun, me, I), 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:pg5615:5:69
# text = ‘It sha’n’t make me blink, though, and I shall keep quite cool and collected.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	sha’	sha'	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	blink	blink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	though	though	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** |  | sun | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **blink** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | though *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **collect** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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