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title: Your choice once made, be very careful never to leave your bride for… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 69

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Your choice once made, be very careful never to leave your bride for an instant, and remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.’

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**Who acts:** choice, danger, we · **What happens:** make, be, not leave, remember, fear, not be · **To what, where:** bride, danger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choice, danger, we), 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:pg540:40:69
# text = Your choice once made, be very careful never to leave your bride for an instant, and remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.’
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Your choice |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Your choice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | to-infinitive | Your choice *not said here* | your bride |  |  |  | for a instant | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bride=Theme for instant=Recipient |
| 4 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | the danger |  |  |  |  | most *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fear** | to-infinitive · passive | the danger *not said here* | the danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V» |
| 7 | **not** **is a** | present | the danger | the danger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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