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title: Take a few here and a few there; but be sure not to take too many fr… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Take a few here and a few there; but be sure not to take too many from one place, or the owner may notice it.' Who acts: you, owner. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 60

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Take a few here and a few there; but be sure not to take too many from one place, or the owner may notice it.'

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**Who acts:** you, owner · **What happens:** take, be, not take, notice · **To what, where:** few, many, one place, place

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, owner), 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:pg3027:21:60
# text = Take a few here and a few there; but be sure not to take too many from one place, or the owner may notice it.'
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | a few |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **take** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | many |  | one place |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent many=Theme from place=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **notice** | may | the owner | place |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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