Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 41

Don't go too far,' said their mother; 'the ugly eel-spearer might come and snap you all up.'

Who acts: you, ugly eel spearer · What happens: not go, say, come, snap up · To what, where: mother, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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, ugly eel spearer), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spearer	det
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spearer	amod
15	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spearer	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 eel	punct
17	spearer	spearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 snap	cc
21	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 snap	obj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 you	nmod:unmarked
24	up	up	ADP	_	21 snap	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not go	imperative · do-support	you not said here		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	you not said here	eels's mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
3	come	might	the ugly eel spearer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	snap up	infinitive	the ugly eel spearer not said here	you		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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