Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 25
Take care of the bucket, for it will crush you to death; and even if you get into it safely, you may fall out.
Who acts: you, care · What happens: take, crush, get, fall out · To what, where: care, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, care), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bucket | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bucket | det |
| 5 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crush | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 crush | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 crush | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 crush | aux |
| 10 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 crush | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crush | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 get | cc |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 get | obl |
| 22 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fall | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 fall | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 fall | aux |
| 26 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 get | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 fall | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | care | of the bucket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of bucket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | crush | future | care | you | to death result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to death=Result | |||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | you | care | safely property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 4 | fall out | may | you | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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