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title: ‘Beware of your life; make friends with no man; do not ride fast, or… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Beware of your life; make friends with no man; do not ride fast, or let the water go out of your hand; believe no one, and flee flattering tongues. Who acts: you, water. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 26

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‘Beware of your life; make friends with no man; do not ride fast, or let the water go out of your hand; believe no one, and flee flattering tongues.

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**Who acts:** you, water · **What happens:** beware, make, not ride, let, go out, believe · **To what, where:** friends, water, hand, one, tongues

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, water), 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:pg641:22:26
# text = ‘Beware of your life; make friends with no man; do not ride fast, or let the water go out of your hand; believe no one, and flee flattering tongues.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	flee	flee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	flattering	flatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
35	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of your life | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | friends |  |  |  | with no man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
| 3 | **not** **ride** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | the water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go out** | infinitive | the water *not said here* | your hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **believe** | infinitive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 7 | **flee** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **flatter** | gerund |  | tongues |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tongue=Experiencer |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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