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title: In future you must be sure to let no one in, if we are not at home.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In future you must be sure to let no one in, if we are not at home.’ Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 203

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In future you must be sure to let no one in, if we are not at home.’

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** be, let in, not be · **To what, where:** future, one, home

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg540:47:203
# text = In future you must be sure to let no one in, if we are not at home.’
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | you |  |  | future |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let in** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | no one |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  |  | home |  |  | 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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