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title: Be careful, however, when wearing the shape of some beast or bird, n… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Be careful, however, when wearing the shape of some beast or bird, not to laugh, or thou wilt certainly forget the magic word and remain an animal for ever.’ Who acts: you, thou. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 32

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Be careful, however, when wearing the shape of some beast or bird, not to laugh, or thou wilt certainly forget the magic word and remain an animal for ever.’

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** be, wear, not laugh, forget, remain · **To what, where:** shape, magic word, animal

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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:pg7277:7:32
# text = Be careful, however, when wearing the shape of some beast or bird, not to laugh, or thou wilt certainly forget the magic word and remain an animal for ever.’
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
22	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund |  | the shape of some beast or bird |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shape=Source |
| 3 | **not** **laugh** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **forget** | future | thou | the magic word |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **remain** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | a animal |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Attribute |

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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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