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title: ‘No, no, you’ll just go off and tell everyone.’ — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No, no, you’ll just go off and tell everyone.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 20

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‘No, no, you’ll just go off and tell everyone.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go off, tell · **To what, where:** everyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg641:16:20
# text = ‘No, no, you’ll just go off and tell everyone.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | everyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |

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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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