--- title: Well, don't mind me, but begin your dinner, for I shall never unders… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Well, don't mind me, but begin your dinner, for I shall never understand!" Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/121/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/) / 121 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 121 Well, don't mind me, but begin your dinner, for I shall never understand!" **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not mind, begin, not understand · **To what, where:** me, dinner This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg7128:13:121 # text = Well, don't mind me, but begin your dinner, for I shall never understand!" 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 mind mind VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mind** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | me | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your dinner | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **understand** | shall | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/122/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/)