The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 48

Take care that you are not drowned in the pottage!” he cried as he went by them as if Mischief were at his heels, down to where his brother dwelt.

Who acts: you, Man, Mischief, brother · What happens: take, not drown, cry, go, be, dwell · To what, where: care, you, pottage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Man, Mischief, brother), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 drowned	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 drowned	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drowned	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 drowned	advmod
7	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Take	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pottage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pottage	det
10	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drowned	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 went	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	ccomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	obl
20	as	as	ADP	_	26 heels	case
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 heels	mark
22	Mischief	Mischief	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 heels	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heels	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 heels	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heels	nmod:poss
26	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dwelt	punct
28	down	down	ADV	_	33 dwelt	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 where	case
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 dwelt	advmod
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brother	nmod:poss
32	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dwelt	nsubj
33	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	care			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute
2	not drown	present · passive		you	the pottage		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Man				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	past	Man			by stomachs = stomach	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by they=Location
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Mischief			as Man's heels	tree rules
6	dwell in a quote	past	Man's brother			down property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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