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title: ‘My bones are still sore from their blows, and had it not been for y… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My bones are still sore from their blows, and had it not been for you I should indeed have fared badly.’ Who acts: bones, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 116

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‘My bones are still sore from their blows, and had it not been for you I should indeed have fared badly.’

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**Who acts:** bones, I · **What happens:** be, have, not be, fare, blow · **To what, where:** blows, blow

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, I), 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:pg641:33:116
# text = ‘My bones are still sore from their blows, and had it not been for you I should indeed have fared badly.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	fared	fare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My bones |  |  | bones's blows | still | sore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | blow |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |
| 4 | **fare** | should · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | badly, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **blow** |  | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=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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