Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 34

I will tell all children about him, that they may take care and not play with him, for he will only cause them sorrow and many a heartache.”

Who acts: I, arrows, child · What happens: tell, take, not play, cause, sorrow · To what, where: children, care, arrows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, arrows, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 children	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 take	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	ccomp
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 play	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 play	advmod
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 play	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cause	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 cause	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cause	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 cause	aux
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 cause	advmod
24	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 play	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cause	obj
26	sorrow	sorrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cause	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heartache	cc
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 heartache	amod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 heartache	det
30	heartache	heartache	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sorrow	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I		all children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take	may	arrows = arrow	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	not play	infinitive	arrows = arrow not said here			with child	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
4	cause	future	child	arrows = arrow			tree rules
5	sorrow	infinitive	arrows = arrow not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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