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title: If you are invited to play at a feast, accept willingly, but beware… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are invited to play at a feast, accept willingly, but beware of asking a fixed price; say you will take whatever they may feel inclined to give. Who acts: you, money, whatever. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 75

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If you are invited to play at a feast, accept willingly, but beware of asking a fixed price; say you will take whatever they may feel inclined to give.

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**Who acts:** you, money, whatever · **What happens:** invite, play, accept, beware, ask, fix · **To what, where:** you, feast, fixed price, whatever · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, money, whatever), 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:pg2435:11:75
# text = If you are invited to play at a feast, accept willingly, but beware of asking a fixed price; say you will take whatever they may feel inclined to give.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
26	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a feast |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accept** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beware** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | you *not said here* | a fixed price |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent price=Recipient |
| 6 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **take** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **feel** | may | money | whatever |  |  |  | inclined *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme |
| 10 | **give** | to-infinitive | whatever *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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