The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 40
Take care what you are about, for if you again refuse to marry me she shall be torn in pieces by two tigers.’
Who acts: you, two tigers · What happens: take, be, refuse, not marry, tear · To what, where: care, me, Fairy, pieces
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, two tigers), 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 about | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 about | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 refuse | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 refuse | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 refuse | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 refuse | nsubj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 refuse | advmod |
| 12 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 marry | mark |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 refuse | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 marry | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 torn | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 torn | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 torn | aux:pass |
| 19 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 marry | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 torn | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 tigers | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 tigers | nummod |
| 24 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 torn | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | 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 | is | present | you | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | present | you | again | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tear | shall · passive | two tigers | Fairy | pieces | tree rules |
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.
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