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title: During my absence take care of yourselves and be good girls; behave… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: During my absence take care of yourselves and be good girls; behave well and look after everything in the house. Who acts: you, my, yourselves. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 6

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During my absence take care of yourselves and be good girls; behave well and look after everything in the house.

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**Who acts:** you, my, yourselves · **What happens:** take, be, behave, look, absent, care · **To what, where:** care, good girls

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. 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, yourselves), 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:pg540:12:6
# text = During my absence take care of yourselves and be good girls; behave well and look after everything in the house.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	behave	behave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | care of yourselves |  |  | during my absence |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | good girls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **behave** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after everything | in the house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=Theme |
| 5 | **absent** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **care** |  | yourselves |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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