The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 72

To-day you must take a hundred sheep to graze; but be careful that no harm befalls them.”

Who acts: you, harm · What happens: take, graze, be, befall · To what, where: hundred sheep, sheep

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, harm), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hundred	det
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sheep	nummod
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 graze	mark
11	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 careful	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 careful	cc
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 careful	cop
15	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 take	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 befalls	mark
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 harm	det
18	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 befalls	nsubj
19	befalls	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 careful	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 befalls	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	must	you		hundred sheep	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=Destination
2	graze	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	infinitive	you not said here				careful property	tree rules
4	befall	present	no harm	sheep				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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