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title: Look at him with that when he is asleep, but take care not to let an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at him with that when he is asleep, but take care not to let any tallow drop upon him.” Who acts: you, man. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 45

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Look at him with that when he is asleep, but take care not to let any tallow drop upon him.”

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** look, be, take, not let · **To what, where:** care, tallow drop

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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 (you, man), 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:pg503:4:45
# text = Look at him with that when he is asleep, but take care not to let any tallow drop upon him.”
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at man; with that | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | man |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive |  | any tallow drop |  |  |  | upon man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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