The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 29

“Take great care of this ring,” she said: “it is more precious than diamonds; every time you do a bad deed it will prick your finger, but if, in spite of its pricking, you go on in your own evil way, you will lose my friendship, and I shall become your enemy.”

Who acts: fairy, ring, you · What happens: take, say, be, do, prick, go on · To what, where: great care, bad deed, finger, spite, friendship, enemy · 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 (fairy, ring, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 care	amod
4	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ring	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 ring	det
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 care	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 precious	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 precious	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 precious	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 precious	cop
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 precious	advmod
17	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 diamonds	case
19	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 precious	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 prick	punct
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 prick	obl:unmarked
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
24	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 time	acl:relcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 deed	det
26	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 deed	amod
27	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 prick	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 prick	aux
30	prick	prick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 finger	nmod:poss
32	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 prick	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 lose	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 lose	cc
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 go	mark
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spite	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 spite	case
38	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 go	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 pricking	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 pricking	nmod:poss
41	pricking	pricking	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spite	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spite	punct
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 go	nsubj
44	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 lose	advcl
45	on	on	ADP	_	44 go	compound:prt
46	in	in	ADP	_	50 way	case
47	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 way	nmod:poss
48	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 way	amod
49	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 way	amod
50	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 go	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 lose	nsubj
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 lose	aux
54	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 prick	conj
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 friendship	nmod:poss
56	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 lose	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 become	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 become	cc
59	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 become	nsubj
60	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 become	aux
61	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 prick	conj
62	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 enemy	nmod:poss
63	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 become	xcomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 prick	punct
65	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 prick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive		great care of this ring				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	fairy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	ring				than diamonds; precious property	tree rules
4	do in a quote	present	you	a bad deed				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
5	prick in a quote	future	ring	your finger		time		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient
6	go on a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		spite of ring's pricking		in your own evil way	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
7	lose in a quote	future	you	my friendship				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Eventuality
8	become in a quote	shall	fairy	your enemy				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	care in a quote		this ring					nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent
10	spite in a quote			ring's pricking				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
11	prick in a quote		ring					nom pricking «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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