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title: Something had put out his temper, for with a frown he said, ‘Watch c… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Something had put out his temper, for with a frown he said, ‘Watch carefully our ways in the house, and beware of making any mistake, or it will go ill with you. Who acts: daring, mistake. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 79

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Something had put out his temper, for with a frown he said, ‘Watch carefully our ways in the house, and beware of making any mistake, or it will go ill with you.

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**Who acts:** daring, mistake · **What happens:** put out, say, watch, beware, make, go · **To what, where:** Something, ways, house, mistake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daring, mistake), 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:pg641:9:79
# text = Something had put out his temper, for with a frown he said, ‘Watch carefully our ways in the house, and beware of making any mistake, or it will go ill with you.
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	frown	frown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
35	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | past · perfect · passive |  | Something |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset temper=Goal |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | daring |  |  |  |  | for a frown | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **watch** | infinitive |  | our ways |  | the house |  | carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 4 | **beware** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **make** | gerund |  | any mistake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
| 6 | **go** | future | mistake |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **temper** |  | daring |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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 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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