The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 110

But take care, in crossing, to get as near the other side as you can before you say so, or you may be the first victim yourself.”

Who acts: you · What happens: take, get, say, be · To what, where: care, crossing, other side, first victim · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. 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.

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 take	cc
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crossing	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 crossing	case
6	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 take	conj
10	as	as	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
11	near	near	ADP	_	14 side	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 side	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 side	amod
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 can	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 can	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 side	acl:relcl
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 say	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 get	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	20 say	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 victim	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 victim	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 victim	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 victim	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 victim	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 victim	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 victim	amod
29	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 take	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	care	crossing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme yourself=Destination
2	get	to-infinitive	you not said here		the other side	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	may	you	the first victim		tree rules

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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