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title: Take care that you are not drowned in the pottage!” he cried as he w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Take care that you are not drowned in the pottage!” he cried as he went by them as if Mischief were at his heels, down to where his brother dwelt. Who acts: you, Man, Mischief, brother. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 48

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Take care that you are not drowned in the pottage!” he cried as he went by them as if Mischief were at his heels, down to where his brother dwelt.

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**Who acts:** you, Man, Mischief, brother · **What happens:** take, not drown, cry, go, be, dwell · **To what, where:** care, you, pottage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Man, Mischief, brother), 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:pg503:20:48
# text = Take care that you are not drowned in the pottage!” he cried as he went by them as if Mischief were at his heels, down to where his brother dwelt.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pottage	pottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	Mischief	Mischief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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* | care |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **drown** | present · passive |  | you |  | the pottage |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Man |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Man |  |  |  |  | by stomachs *= stomach* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by they=Location |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | Mischief |  |  |  |  | as Man's heels | tree rules |
| 6 | **dwell** *in a quote* | past | Man's brother |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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