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title: Go, and take care, for the way is long, the world is bad, and you ho… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Go, and take care, for the way is long, the world is bad, and you hold something very precious. Who acts: you, way, world. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 27

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Go, and take care, for the way is long, the world is bad, and you hold something very precious.

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**Who acts:** you, way, world · **What happens:** go, take, be, hold · **To what, where:** care, something

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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, way, world), 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:pg641:22:27
# text = Go, and take care, for the way is long, the world is bad, and you hold something very precious.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the way |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the world |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hold** | present | you | something |  |  |  | precious *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |

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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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