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title: But take heed to follow always behind them, and suffer nothing that… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But take heed to follow always behind them, and suffer nothing that you see, and nought that you hear, to draw you into leaving them. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 14

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But take heed to follow always behind them, and suffer nothing that you see, and nought that you hear, to draw you into leaving them.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, follow, suffer, see, hear, draw · **To what, where:** heed, nothing, you, cows

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg3027:30:14
# text = But take heed to follow always behind them, and suffer nothing that you see, and nought that you hear, to draw you into leaving them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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* | heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind cows *= cow*; always *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind they=Location |
| 3 | **suffer** | present |  | nothing |  |  |  | nought *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hear** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 6 | **draw** | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | gerund |  | cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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