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title: “Your parents dwell here now,” said the White Bear; “but do not forg… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Your parents dwell here now,” said the White Bear; “but do not forget what I said to you, or you will do much harm both to yourself and me.” Who acts: parents, White Bear, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 28

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“Your parents dwell here now,” said the White Bear; “but do not forget what I said to you, or you will do much harm both to yourself and me.”

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**Who acts:** parents, White Bear, you · **What happens:** dwell, say, not forget, do, harm · **To what, where:** you, much, both, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, White Bear, 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:pg503:4:28
# text = “Your parents dwell here now,” said the White Bear; “but do not forget what I said to you, or you will do much harm both to yourself and me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
29	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	_
30	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
31	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** *in a quote* | present | Your parents |  |  | here | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the White Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **forget** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the White Bear *= bear* |  | you |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to you=Recipient |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | future | you | much |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality |
| 6 | **harm** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | both | yourself |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus both=Experiencer |

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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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