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title: But take heed that neither man nor beast kiss thee, for then thou wi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But take heed that neither man nor beast kiss thee, for then thou wilt cease to remember me at all.’ Who acts: you, thou. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 71

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But take heed that neither man nor beast kiss thee, for then thou wilt cease to remember me at all.’

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** take, cease, remember · **To what, where:** heed, me, all

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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:pg3454:29:71
# text = But take heed that neither man nor beast kiss thee, for then thou wilt cease to remember me at all.’
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	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
5	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
8	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	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 | **cease** | future | thou |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **remember** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | me |  | all |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=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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