The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 71

As soon as the King saw the Roe, he said to his huntsman, ‘Now then, give chase to it all day till evening, but mind and be careful not to hurt it.’

Who acts: King, mind · What happens: see, say, give, be, not hurt · To what, where: Roe, chase, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, mind), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 said	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 saw	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Roe	det
8	Roe	Roe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	to	to	ADP	_	14 huntsman	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 huntsman	nmod:poss
14	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 huntsman	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 huntsman	punct
17	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 give	advmod
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 give	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
21	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 give	obl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl:unmarked
26	till	till	ADP	_	27 evening	case
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 careful	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 careful	cc
30	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 careful	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 careful	cc
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 careful	cop
33	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	conj
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 hurt	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 hurt	mark
36	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 careful	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hurt	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the King	the Roe				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roe=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	King				to King's huntsman; soon property	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to huntsman=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	give	infinitive		chase	chase	now; then; day; evening		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chase=Theme to it=Recipient
4	is	infinitive	mind				careful property	tree rules
5	not hurt	to-infinitive	mind not said here	mind				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/71/