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title: Never mind yet, you clown, but you'll pay us another time for this. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Never mind yet, you clown, but you'll pay us another time for this. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 25

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Never mind yet, you clown, but you'll pay us another time for this.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not mind, clown, pay · **To what, where:** us

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7885:5:25
# text = Never mind yet, you clown, but you'll pay us another time for this.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	clown	clown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **clown** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | future | you |  | us |  | time |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Asset |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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