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title: But, above all, remember this: should my little dog come to you and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, above all, remember this: should my little dog come to you and lay his paws on you, with tears running down his face, then hurry home, for my life will be in danger. Who acts: all, little dog, tears, life. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, w
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 46

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But, above all, remember this: should my little dog come to you and lay his paws on you, with tears running down his face, then hurry home, for my life will be in danger.

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**Who acts:** all, little dog, tears, life · **What happens:** remember, come, lay, run down, hurry, be · **To what, where:** this, you, paws, face

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, little dog, tears, life), 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:pg2435:33:46
# text = But, above all, remember this: should my little dog come to you and lay his paws on you, with tears running down his face, then hurry home, for my life will be in danger.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	above	above	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | infinitive | all | this |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | should | my little dog |  | you |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay** | infinitive | my little dog *not said here* | dog's paws |  |  |  | on you; with tears | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on you=Destination |
| 4 | **run down** | gerund | tears *not said here* | dog's face |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Trajectory |
| 5 | **hurry** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | future | my life |  |  |  |  | for danger | 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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