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title: But don’t take any notice of him; just set him upon my apron, and he… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But don’t take any notice of him; just set him upon my apron, and help yourself to the money. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 24

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But don’t take any notice of him; just set him upon my apron, and help yourself to the money.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not take, set, help, notice · **To what, where:** notice, lip, apron, yourself

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:3274`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:46:24
# text = But don’t take any notice of him; just set him upon my apron, and help yourself to the money.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | any notice of lip |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive |  | lip |  | my apron |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon apron=Destination |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  | to the money | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **notice** |  |  | lip |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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