The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 237

‘If you don’t take good care of them,’ says she, ‘your bold head will be stuck on that pole!’

Who acts: you, pieces · What happens: not take, say, stick, care · To what, where: good care, mare, bold head, pole · Speech: someone speaks here

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, pieces), 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	_	13 says	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 take	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	ccomp
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 care	amod
8	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 care	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 says	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stuck	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 stuck	punct
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
18	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 head	amod
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stuck	nsubj:pass
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 stuck	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 stuck	aux:pass
22	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 says	parataxis
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 pole	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 pole	det
25	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stuck	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 stuck	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not take a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	good care of pieces		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present		mare		tree rules
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		pieces = piece			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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