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title: Now, you take my advice--which won’t cost you anything--and remember… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, you take my advice--which won’t cost you anything--and remember that it is always more economical to buy fruit with stones on this account.’ Who acts: you, advice, it. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 139

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Now, you take my advice--which won’t cost you anything--and remember that it is always more economical to buy fruit with stones on this account.’

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**Who acts:** you, advice, it · **What happens:** take, not cost, remember, be, buy · **To what, where:** advice, anything, you, fruit, account · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, advice, it), 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:pg7277:12:139
# text = Now, you take my advice--which won’t cost you anything--and remember that it is always more economical to buy fruit with stones on this account.’
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	economical	economical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | you | my advice |  |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **cost** | future | my advice | anything | you |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary anything=Value |
| 3 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | economical *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | fruit |  | this account |  | with stones | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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 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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