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title: “That is neither here nor there,” said she; “if you do not, death's… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is neither here nor there,” said she; “if you do not, death's your portion!” Who acts: That, cap, you, death. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 76

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“That is neither here nor there,” said she; “if you do not, death's your portion!”

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**Who acts:** That, cap, you, death · **What happens:** be, say, not do, portion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, cap, you, death), 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:pg7439:23:76
# text = “That is neither here nor there,” said she; “if you do not, death's your portion!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc:preconj	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	parataxis	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | cap |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **portion** *in a quote* |  | death |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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