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title: Then she took from a shelf a tiny golden box, and gave it to Uraschi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she took from a shelf a tiny golden box, and gave it to Uraschimataro, praying him to keep it carefully, and above all things never to open it. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 94

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Then she took from a shelf a tiny golden box, and gave it to Uraschimataro, praying him to keep it carefully, and above all things never to open it.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** take, give, pray, keep, not open · **To what, where:** shelf, box, Uraschimataro, heart, things

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg5615:3:94
# text = Then she took from a shelf a tiny golden box, and gave it to Uraschimataro, praying him to keep it carefully, and above all things never to open it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | princess |  |  | a shelf  a tiny golden box | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from shelf=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | princess *not said here* | box | Uraschimataro |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to uraschimataro=Recipient |
| 3 | **pray** | gerund | princess *not said here* | heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | box |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **open** | to-infinitive |  | box |  | all things |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme above thing=Location |

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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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