Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 35

I shall tell all the good children about this, so that they take care never to play with him, lest he hurt them."

Who acts: I, colours, boy · What happens: tell, take, not play, hurt · To what, where: good children, care, colours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy 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, colours, boy), 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	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 children	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 children	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 take	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
14	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
15	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 play	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 play	mark
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 play	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hurt	punct
22	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	24 hurt	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hurt	nsubj
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 play	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hurt	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	shall	I		all good children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent child=Recipient about this=Topic
2	take	present	colours = colour	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	not play	to-infinitive	colours = colour not said here			with boy	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
4	hurt	past	boy	colours = colour			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

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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