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title: "Be cautious, cautious, and take good heed to thyself," they both say. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Be cautious, cautious, and take good heed to thyself," they both say. Who acts: you, notes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 54

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"Be cautious, cautious, and take good heed to thyself," they both say.

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**Who acts:** you, notes · **What happens:** be, take, say · **To what, where:** good heed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, notes), 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:pg27200:10:54
# text = "Be cautious, cautious, and take good heed to thyself," they both say.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	cautious	cautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cautious	cautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cautious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | good heed |  |  |  | to thyself | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to thyself=be' clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | notes *= note* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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