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title: For the second time I have shown you the path to follow; try to lear… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For the second time I have shown you the path to follow; try to learn wisdom, and take the bull by the horns, lest your luck should slip from you! Who acts: I, you, luck. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 72

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For the second time I have shown you the path to follow; try to learn wisdom, and take the bull by the horns, lest your luck should slip from you!

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**Who acts:** I, you, luck · **What happens:** show, follow, try, learn, take, slip · **To what, where:** path, you, wisdom, bull

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, luck), 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:pg2435:11:72
# text = For the second time I have shown you the path to follow; try to learn wisdom, and take the bull by the horns, lest your luck should slip from you!
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · perfect | I | the path | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient path=Topic |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the path *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **learn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive |  |  | the bull |  |  | by the horns | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bull=Destination |
| 6 | **slip** | should | your luck |  |  |  |  | from you | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from you=Co-Patient |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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