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title: But you must take care not to stray away from them, nor go wandering… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But you must take care not to stray away from them, nor go wandering about the fields by yourself. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 8

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But you must take care not to stray away from them, nor go wandering about the fields by yourself.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, not stray away, go, wonder · **To what, where:** care

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (you), 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:pg976:20:8
# text = But you must take care not to stray away from them, nor go wandering about the fields by yourself.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stray	stray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **take** | must | you | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **stray away** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from creatures *= creature*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the fields; by yourself | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about field=Stimulus |

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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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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