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title: 'Beware lest you fall asleep, and let slip the chance of getting hom… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Beware lest you fall asleep, and let slip the chance of getting home again'; for while the lads were sleeping sweet music reached his ears, and he slept also. Who acts: you, chance, lads, Ian. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 112

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'Beware lest you fall asleep, and let slip the chance of getting home again'; for while the lads were sleeping sweet music reached his ears, and he slept also.

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**Who acts:** you, chance, lads, Ian · **What happens:** beware, fall, let, slip, get, sleep · **To what, where:** chance, sweet music, ears

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chance, lads, Ian), 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:pg3027:5:112
# text = 'Beware lest you fall asleep, and let slip the chance of getting home again'; for while the lads were sleeping sweet music reached his ears, and he slept also.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
25	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
34	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall** | present | you |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slip** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the chance |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 5 | **get** | gerund | the chance *not said here* |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the lads | sweet music |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
| 7 | **reach** | past | you *not said here* | Ian's ears |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 8 | **sleep** | past | Ian |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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:** «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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