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title: “Keep your pot of pinks and your ring, but let my things alone. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Keep your pot of pinks and your ring, but let my things alone. Who acts: you. 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 9

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“Keep your pot of pinks and your ring, but let my things alone.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** keep, let · **To what, where:** pot, things

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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), 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:pg503:22:9
# text = “Keep your pot of pinks and your ring, but let my things alone.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your pot of pinks and your ring |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | my things |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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