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title: Keep these crowns under your cloak, and if you are obliged to stay l… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep these crowns under your cloak, and if you are obliged to stay last, don’t get into the basket, but put a big stone, or any heavy thing inside, and see what will happen.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree a
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 37

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Keep these crowns under your cloak, and if you are obliged to stay last, don’t get into the basket, but put a big stone, or any heavy thing inside, and see what will happen.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** keep, oblige, stay, not get, put, see · **To what, where:** crowns, cloak, you, basket, big stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. 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:pg3454:11:37
# text = Keep these crowns under your cloak, and if you are obliged to stay last, don’t get into the basket, but put a big stone, or any heavy thing inside, and see what will happen.’
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
34	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
38	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	40	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | this crowns |  | your cloak |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crown=Theme under cloak=Location |
| 2 | **oblige** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **stay** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | last *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **get** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  | the basket |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into basket=Destination |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a big stone |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stone=Goal |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **happen** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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