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title: “‘Be careful of my gifts, good man; see that you do not lose the rin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Be careful of my gifts, good man; see that you do not lose the ring or forget to water the pinks. Who acts: you, my. 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 clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 4

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“‘Be careful of my gifts, good man; see that you do not lose the ring or forget to water the pinks.

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** be, see, not lose, forget, gift · **To what, where:** ring, water

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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, my), 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:pg503:22:4
# text = “‘Be careful of my gifts, good man; see that you do not lose the ring or forget to water the pinks.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of my gifts and good man; careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **lose** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality |
| 4 | **forget** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **gift** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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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