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title: But be careful not to return to the stable or to the bedroom; they h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But be careful not to return to the stable or to the bedroom; they have proved too fatal to you. Who acts: you, things. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 10

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But be careful not to return to the stable or to the bedroom; they have proved too fatal to you.

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**Who acts:** you, things · **What happens:** be, not return, prove

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (you, things), 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:pg640:12:10
# text = But be careful not to return to the stable or to the bedroom; they have proved too fatal to you.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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** **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the stable or the bedroom *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to stable=Result |
| 3 | **prove** | present · perfect | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | fatal *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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