The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 221

‘Mind, Prince! if you don’t take good care of the mares, if you lose merely one of them—your bold head will be stuck on that pole!’

Who acts: you, mares · What happens: not take, lose, stick, care · To what, where: Mind, one, bold head, pole

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mares), 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 Mind	punct
2	Mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Prince	punct
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mind	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Mind	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 take	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 take	advmod
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 care	amod
12	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 mares	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mares	det
15	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 care	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lose	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 lose	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 lose	nsubj
19	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 take	advcl
20	merely	merely	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 lose	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 one	nmod
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 stuck	punct
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
26	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 head	amod
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stuck	nsubj:pass
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stuck	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 stuck	aux:pass
30	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 take	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 pole	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 pole	det
33	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stuck	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 stuck	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not take	present · do-support	you	Mind		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	lose a condition, not said to happen	present	you	one of meadows		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
3	stick	future · passive		your bold head	that pole	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on pole=Destination
4	care		the mares			nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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