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title: ‘Blows will hurt, remember, crone, We mean you well, we mean you wel… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Blows will hurt, remember, crone, We mean you well, we mean you well; In future leave the stick alone, Who acts: Blows, We. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 104

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‘Blows will hurt, remember, crone, We mean you well, we mean you well; In future leave the stick alone,

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**Who acts:** Blows, We · **What happens:** hurt, remember, mean, leave · **To what, where:** crone, you, stick, future

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blows, We), 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:pg641:17:104
# text = ‘Blows will hurt, remember, crone, We mean you well, we mean you well; In future leave the stick alone,
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	crone	crone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	In	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | future | Blows |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **remember** | infinitive | Blows *not said here* | crone |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent crone=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | We | you |  |  |  | well *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | we | you |  |  |  | well *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 5 | **leave** | present |  | the stick |  | future |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in future=Location |

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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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