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title: ‘Go about everywhere, keep watch over everything; only do not ventur… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Go about everywhere, keep watch over everything; only do not venture to look into that closet there.’ Who acts: you. 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 clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 63

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‘Go about everywhere, keep watch over everything; only do not venture to look into that closet there.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go about, keep, not venture, look · **To what, where:** watch, everything

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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), 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:pg540:7:63
# text = ‘Go about everywhere, keep watch over everything; only do not venture to look into that closet there.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	venture	venture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go about** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | watch |  | everything |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over everything=Location |
| 3 | **not** **venture** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | there |  | into that closet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into closet=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 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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