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title: ‘Have a care,’ answered the queen, ‘for it is not with a smile as on… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Have a care,’ answered the queen, ‘for it is not with a smile as on the other days that he will greet you. Who acts: care, king. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 52

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‘Have a care,’ answered the queen, ‘for it is not with a smile as on the other days that he will greet you.

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**Who acts:** care, king · **What happens:** have, answer, not be, greet · **To what, where:** care, queen, you · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, king), 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:pg3454:9:52
# text = ‘Have a care,’ answered the queen, ‘for it is not with a smile as on the other days that he will greet you.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | infinitive |  | a care |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the queen and a smile |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | care |  |  |  |  | for a smile | tree rules |
| 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* | future | king |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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