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title: At the same time I shall give you a cap, which you must carefully ke… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time I shall give you a cap, which you must carefully keep, for it can save you, if you ever are in danger of your life, if you just put it on your head. Who acts: I, you, cap. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 53

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At the same time I shall give you a cap, which you must carefully keep, for it can save you, if you ever are in danger of your life, if you just put it on your head.

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**Who acts:** I, you, cap · **What happens:** give, keep, save, be, put · **To what, where:** cap, you, danger, head

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, cap), 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:pg5615:31:53
# text = At the same time I shall give you a cap, which you must carefully keep, for it can save you, if you ever are in danger of your life, if you just put it on your head.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | shall | I | a cap | you |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cap=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | must | you | a cap |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | can | cap | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | danger | ever | of your life | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | cap |  | your head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=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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