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title: ‘No, no, Mister Fox,’ replied Blacky, ‘I am not going to open my doo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No, no, Mister Fox,’ replied Blacky, ‘I am not going to open my door to you. Who acts: Mister, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 58

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‘No, no, Mister Fox,’ replied Blacky, ‘I am not going to open my door to you.

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**Who acts:** Mister, I · **What happens:** reply, not go, open · **To what, where:** Blacky, door, you

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mister, 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:pg7277:13:58
# text = ‘No, no, Mister Fox,’ replied Blacky, ‘I am not going to open my door to you.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Mister	Mister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Mister | Blacky |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blacky=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **open** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my door | you |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to you=Recipient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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