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title: But the thought of the eighteen heads warned him to be careful, and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the thought of the eighteen heads warned him to be careful, and the third sister brought him a silk shirt which would make him ten times stronger than he was before. Who acts: thought, third sister, silk shirt, Paul. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 88

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But the thought of the eighteen heads warned him to be careful, and the third sister brought him a silk shirt which would make him ten times stronger than he was before.

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**Who acts:** thought, third sister, silk shirt, Paul · **What happens:** warn, be, bring, make, think · **To what, where:** Paul, silk shirt, eighteen heads · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, third sister, silk shirt, Paul), 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:pg2435:31:88
# text = But the thought of the eighteen heads warned him to be careful, and the third sister brought him a silk shirt which would make him ten times stronger than he was before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
30	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | the thought of the eighteen heads |  | Paul |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the third sister | a silk shirt | Paul |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination shirt=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | would | a silk shirt | Paul |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 5 | **is** | past | Paul |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** |  |  | the eighteen heads |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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