Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 161

"Be kind enough to seat yourself on that cupboard," she retorted, "but take care you don't fall through and break the bottles--you know what's inside of them.

Who acts: you, Pray · What happens: be, retort, take, not fall through, break, know · To what, where: care, bottles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Pray), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 kind	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 kind	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 seat	mark
6	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kind	advcl
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 seat	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 cupboard	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 cupboard	det
10	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seat	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 retorted	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 retorted	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 retorted	nsubj
14	retorted	retort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 retorted	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 retorted	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 retorted	conj
19	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 fall	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fall	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 fall	advmod
23	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	parataxis
24	through	through	ADV	_	23 fall	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 break	cc
26	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fall	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bottles	det
28	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 break	obj
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
31	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	parataxis
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 them	nsubj
33	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 them	cop
34	inside	inside	ADP	_	36 them	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 know	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	imperative	you not said here		enough, kind property	tree rules
2	retort speech: other	past	Pray			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	take in a quote	infinitive	Pray not said here	care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	not fall through in a quote	present · do-support	you		through property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	break in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the bottles		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Patient
6	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is in a quote	present			inside care	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: «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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