The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 261
Take care of yourself, for he means to kill you.”
Who acts: you, request · What happens: take, mean, kill · To what, where: care, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, request), 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 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 yourself | case |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Take | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 means | case |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 kill | mark |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 means | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | care | of yourself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of yourself=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | mean | present | request | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | request not said here | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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