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title: To-day you must take a hundred sheep to graze; but be careful that n… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To-day you must take a hundred sheep to graze; but be careful that no harm befalls them.” Who acts: you, harm. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 72

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To-day you must take a hundred sheep to graze; but be careful that no harm befalls them.”

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**Who acts:** you, harm · **What happens:** take, graze, be, befall · **To what, where:** hundred sheep, sheep

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, harm), 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:pg2435:26:72
# text = To-day you must take a hundred sheep to graze; but be careful that no harm befalls them.”
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	graze	graze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	befalls	befall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | must | you |  | hundred sheep |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=Destination |
| 2 | **graze** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **befall** | present | no harm | sheep |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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