The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 58

But I warn you to be careful, for if he sees you he may kill you.

Who acts: I, last · What happens: warn, be, see, kill · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, last), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 warn	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 warn	nsubj
3	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 warn	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 careful	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 careful	cop
7	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warn	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sees	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 sees	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 sees	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sees	nsubj
12	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warn	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sees	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kill	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 kill	aux
16	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sees	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 kill	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 warn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	I		you		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is	to-infinitive	I not said here			careful property	tree rules
3	see a condition, not said to happen	present	last	you			tree rules
4	kill	may	last	you			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «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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