--- title: ‘I have no time to waste on other people’s affairs,’ said Peter; ‘ju… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I have no time to waste on other people’s affairs,’ said Peter; ‘just fight away as best you can;’ and with that he walked off and left them. Who acts: I, Peter, king. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/) / 25 # The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 25 ‘I have no time to waste on other people’s affairs,’ said Peter; ‘just fight away as best you can;’ and with that he walked off and left them. **Who acts:** I, Peter, king · **What happens:** have, waste, say, fight away, walk off, leave · **To what, where:** affairs, Peter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Peter, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:24:25 # text = ‘I have no time to waste on other people’s affairs,’ said Peter; ‘just fight away as best you can;’ and with that he walked off and left them. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 waste waste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’s 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 affairs affair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 just just ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 parataxis _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 with with SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 33 off off ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | I | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **waste** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | on other people's affairs *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on affair=Goal | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Peter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **fight away** | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **walk off** | past | king | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leave** | past | king *not said here* | Peter | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/26/) - ↑ back to [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/)