The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 60

Take a few here and a few there; but be sure not to take too many from one place, or the owner may notice it.'

Who acts: you, owner · What happens: take, be, not take, notice · To what, where: few, many, one place, place

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, owner), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 few	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Take	obj
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Take	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 there	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 few	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 there	nsubj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Take	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sure	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sure	cc
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sure	cop
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Take	advcl
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 take	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sure	ccomp
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 many	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 take	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 place	nummod
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 notice	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 notice	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 owner	det
24	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 notice	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 notice	aux
26	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 notice	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	a few	here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme
2	is	infinitive	you not said here			sure property	tree rules
3	not take	to-infinitive	you not said here	many	one place		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent many=Theme from place=Initial_Location
4	notice	may	the owner	place			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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