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title: ‘May you go blind!’ exclaimed the emperor in wrath; ‘what business i… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘May you go blind!’ exclaimed the emperor in wrath; ‘what business is it of yours?’ and boxed Petru’s ears soundly. Who acts: you, business. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 20

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‘May you go blind!’ exclaimed the emperor in wrath; ‘what business is it of yours?’ and boxed Petru’s ears soundly.

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**Who acts:** you, business · **What happens:** go, exclaim, be, box · **To what, where:** emperor, wrath, business, ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, business), 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:pg641:19:20
# text = ‘May you go blind!’ exclaimed the emperor in wrath; ‘what business is it of yours?’ and boxed Petru’s ears soundly.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
5	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	parataxis	_	_
16	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	boxed	box	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | may | you |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  | the emperor |  | wrath |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | business | business |  |  |  | of yours | tree rules |
| 4 | **box** | past |  | Petru's ears |  |  |  | soundly *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent |

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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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