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title: But won’t she scold me, though, for sleeping away here in a strange… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But won’t she scold me, though, for sleeping away here in a strange house, instead of helping her at market!’ Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 98

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But won’t she scold me, though, for sleeping away here in a strange house, instead of helping her at market!’

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** not scold, sleep away, help · **To what, where:** me, strange house, mother, market

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (mother), 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:pg641:26:98
# text = But won’t she scold me, though, for sleeping away here in a strange house, instead of helping her at market!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	scold	scold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	though	though	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **scold** | future | mother | me |  |  |  | though *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep away** | gerund |  |  |  | a strange house; here |  | away *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
| 3 | **help** | gerund |  |  | mother | market |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |

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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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