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title: “That is just to remind you of what will happen if you don’t take me… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is just to remind you of what will happen if you don’t take me to the pond at once,” said the Crab. Who acts: That, you, Crab. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 31

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“That is just to remind you of what will happen if you don’t take me to the pond at once,” said the Crab.

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**Who acts:** That, you, Crab · **What happens:** be, happen, not take, say · **To what, where:** you, me, pond · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, you, Crab), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:9:31
# text = “That is just to remind you of what will happen if you don’t take me to the pond at once,” said the Crab.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | That |  | you |  |  | remind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **take** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | me |  | the pond |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to pond=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Crab |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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