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title: Be very sure that I will take care of you, and water you well, and n… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Be very sure that I will take care of you, and water you well, and never allow any cruel hand to tear you from your stems.” Who acts: you, I, cruel hand, your. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 17

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Be very sure that I will take care of you, and water you well, and never allow any cruel hand to tear you from your stems.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, cruel hand, your · **What happens:** be, take, not allow, tear, stem · **To what, where:** care, cruel hand, you

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, cruel hand, your), 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:pg503:22:17
# text = Be very sure that I will take care of you, and water you well, and never allow any cruel hand to tear you from your stems.”
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | future | I | care |  |  |  | of you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of you=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **allow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | any cruel hand |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer hand=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | any cruel hand *not said here* | you |  |  |  | from your stems | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient from stem=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **stem** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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