The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 51

Here the Queen interrupted him, saying, ‘Take care what you say, sir.

Who acts: Queen, you · What happens: interrupt, say, take · To what, where: Fanfaronade, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 interrupted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 interrupted	nsubj
4	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 interrupted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 interrupted	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Take	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Take	punct
10	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saying	ccomp
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Take	obj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 Take	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sir	punct
16	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Take	vocative
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	interrupt	past	the Queen	Fanfaronade	here		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Queen not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	infinitive		care		sir vocative	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme what=Destination
4	say speech: assert	present	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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