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title: ‘Mind your own business, mother,’ answered the gazelle, ‘and don’t m… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Mind your own business, mother,’ answered the gazelle, ‘and don’t mind other people’s! A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 135

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‘Mind your own business, mother,’ answered the gazelle, ‘and don’t mind other people’s!

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**What happens:** mind, answer, not mind · **To what, where:** own business, gazelle, other people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:15:135
# text = ‘Mind your own business, mother,’ answered the gazelle, ‘and don’t mind other people’s!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | infinitive |  | your own business and mother |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the gazelle |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **mind** | infinitive · do-support |  | other people |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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