The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 18

“Well, go then,” said the fox, “but be careful not to make any mistake.

Who acts: fox · What happens: go, say, be, not make · To what, where: mistake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 go	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 careful	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 careful	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 careful	cc
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 careful	cop
15	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	conj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 make	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 careful	advcl
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 mistake	det
20	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	infinitive	the fox not said here			careful property	tree rules
4	not make in a quote	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	any mistake			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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