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title: Let my example warn you to make a better use of your beauty!’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Let my example warn you to make a better use of your beauty!’ Who acts: you, example, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 71

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Let my example warn you to make a better use of your beauty!’

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**Who acts:** you, example, my · **What happens:** let, warn, make, exemplify, use · **To what, where:** example, you, better use, beauty

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, example, my), 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:pg7277:11:71
# text = Let my example warn you to make a better use of your beauty!’
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my example |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | infinitive | my example *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | my example *not said here* | a better use of your beauty |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product |
| 4 | **exemplify** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | your beauty |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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