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title: Be very careful never to let her hair go, bid her lead you to your b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Be very careful never to let her hair go, bid her lead you to your brother, and force her to bring him back to life. Who acts: you, power. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 79

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Be very careful never to let her hair go, bid her lead you to your brother, and force her to bring him back to life.

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**Who acts:** you, power · **What happens:** be, not let, go, bid, force, bring back · **To what, where:** power, lead, brother, life

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, power), 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:pg5615:23:79
# text = Be very careful never to let her hair go, bid her lead you to your brother, and force her to bring him back to life.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bid	bid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	force	force	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive |  | power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | power *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bid** | infinitive |  | power's lead |  |  |  | to your brother | tree rules |
| 5 | **force** | infinitive |  | power |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | power *not said here* | brother |  | life |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Destination |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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