--- title: ‘Never mind!’ he cried angrily as he went off, ‘I’ll catch you anoth… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Never mind!’ he cried angrily as he went off, ‘I’ll catch you another day, see if I don’t, and won’t I grind your bones to powder when I have got you in my den!’ and he snarled fiercely and showed his teeth. Who acts: you, fox, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fox, 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:pg7277:13:63 # text = ‘Never mind!’ he cried angrily as he went off, ‘I’ll catch you another day, see if I don’t, and won’t I grind your bones to powder when I have got you in my den!’ and he snarled fiercely and showed his teeth. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 mind mind VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 8 angrily angrily ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 30 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 grind grind VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 powder powder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 37 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 ccomp _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 snarled snarl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 50 fiercely fiercely ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ _ 53 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mind** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | fox | | | | | angrily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go off** | past | fox | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | future | I | you | | | day | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **grind** | future | I | your bones | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 8 | **powder** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **get** | present · perfect | I | you | | my den | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 10 | **snarl** | past | fox | | | | | fiercely *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **show** | past | fox *not said here* | fox's teeth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/64/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Pigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/)