The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 32
But be sure you take great care never to look behind you.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, take, not look · To what, where: great care
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 sure | cc |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 care | amod |
| 7 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 look | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | advcl |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 look | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | you | great care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not look | to-infinitive | you not said here | behind you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind 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 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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