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title: 'Be careful--take no notice, fill your buckets, but listen carefully… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Be careful--take no notice, fill your buckets, but listen carefully all the while, and we will tell you what to do so that you may escape yourself and set free the reindeer also.' Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 114

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'Be careful--take no notice, fill your buckets, but listen carefully all the while, and we will tell you what to do so that you may escape yourself and set free the reindeer also.'

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** be, take, fill, listen, tell, do · **To what, where:** notice, buckets, you, yourself, free reindeer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg3027:35:114
# text = 'Be careful--take no notice, fill your buckets, but listen carefully all the while, and we will tell you what to do so that you may escape yourself and set free the reindeer also.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fill	fill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
33	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
36	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | no notice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | infinitive |  | your buckets |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient |
| 4 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | while | carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | we |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 7 | **escape** | may | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yourself=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the free reindeer |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient reindeer=Result |

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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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