The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 151

“Take care what you are saying, Celia,” said the old hermit; “are you prepared to keep that promise?”

Who acts: you, old hermit · What happens: take, say, be, keep · To what, where: care, promise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old hermit), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 saying	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 saying	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	aux
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Take	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Celia	punct
9	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Celia	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Celia	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hermit	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hermit	amod
15	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 prepared	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 prepared	punct
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 prepared	cop
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 prepared	nsubj
20	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Take	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 keep	mark
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 prepared	xcomp
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 promise	det
24	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	you			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the old hermit			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	you		prepared property	tree rules
5	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	that promise		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=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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