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title: And have a care not to be so foolish to-morrow as you were to-day.' — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And have a care not to be so foolish to-morrow as you were to-day.' Who acts: care, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 119

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And have a care not to be so foolish to-morrow as you were to-day.'

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**Who acts:** care, you · **What happens:** have, not be, be · **To what, where:** care

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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 (care, 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:pg3027:5:119
# text = And have a care not to be so foolish to-morrow as you were to-day.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | a care |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive | a care *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to morrow; foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | you |  |  |  | as day |  | tree rules |

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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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