The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 59

Then he spoke: “Take care, or I’ll hang you up again.”

Who acts: wind · What happens: speak, take, hang up · To what, where: care, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 spoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Take	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Take	punct
6	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spoke	ccomp
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Take	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hang	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 hang	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hang	nsubj
11	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hang	aux
12	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Take	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 hang	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 hang	compound:prt
15	again	again	ADV	_	12 hang	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	wind		then	tree rules
2	take in a quote	infinitive		care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	hang up in a quote	future	wind	you	again	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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