Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 52

"Take care," said the old man, "or people will think you have not been well brought up."

Who acts: you, old man, people · What happens: take, say, think, not bring up · To what, where: care, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old man, people), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 think	cc
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 think	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 think	aux
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Take	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 brought	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 brought	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 brought	aux:pass
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 brought	advmod
21	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 think	ccomp
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 brought	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	care		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other in a quote	future	people			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not bring up in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you	well property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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