Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 18

"Have a care," said Hodge; "for if you say too much, I will put my fingers in your mouth."

Who acts: Hodge, you, Peter · What happens: have, say, put · To what, where: care, much, fingers, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Three Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hodge, you, Peter), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 care	det
4	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Have	conj
8	Hodge	Hodge	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 say	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 say	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 put	advcl
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 say	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 put	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 put	aux
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Have	parataxis
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fingers	nmod:poss
22	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 put	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nmod:poss
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have in a quote	present		a care		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Hodge			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	much		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent much=Topic
4	put in a quote	future	Peter	my fingers	your mouth	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in mouth=Destination

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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