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title: But whatever you do, be sure not to put it in the beautiful cage, or… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But whatever you do, be sure not to put it in the beautiful cage, or everybody in the castle will know that you have stolen it.’ Who acts: you, everybody. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 36

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But whatever you do, be sure not to put it in the beautiful cage, or everybody in the castle will know that you have stolen it.’

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**Who acts:** you, everybody · **What happens:** do, be, not put, know, steal · **To what, where:** whatever, Blackbird, beautiful cage, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, everybody), 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:pg7277:21:36
# text = But whatever you do, be sure not to put it in the beautiful cage, or everybody in the castle will know that you have stolen it.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | you | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **put** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Blackbird |  | the beautiful cage |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cage=Destination |
| 4 | **know** | future | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **steal** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=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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