The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 23
Take care, and don’t lose your footing.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, not lose · To what, where: care, footing
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lose | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lose | cc |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 lose | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lose | advmod |
| 7 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 footing | nmod:poss |
| 9 | footing | footing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lose | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | 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 | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not lose | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | your footing | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=Eventuality |
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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