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title: ‘Mind, Prince! if you don’t take good care of the mares, if you lose… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Mind, Prince! if you don’t take good care of the mares, if you lose merely one of them—your bold head will be stuck on that pole!’ Who acts: you, mares. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 221

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‘Mind, Prince! if you don’t take good care of the mares, if you lose merely one of them—your bold head will be stuck on that pole!’

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**Who acts:** you, mares · **What happens:** not take, lose, stick, care · **To what, where:** Mind, one, bold head, pole

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mares), 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:pg540:7:221
# text = ‘Mind, Prince! if you don’t take good care of the mares, if you lose merely one of them—your bold head will be stuck on that pole!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
20	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | present · do-support | you | Mind |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | one of meadows |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stick** | future · passive |  | your bold head |  | that pole |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on pole=Destination |
| 4 | **care** |  | the mares |  |  |  |  |  | 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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