The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 11

But take care; for she is wicked and fierce, and may not allow you to destroy her.

Who acts: you, Guardian · What happens: take, be, not allow, destroy · To what, where: care, you, Guardian

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Guardian), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 take	cc
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 wicked	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 wicked	case
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wicked	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wicked	cop
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 take	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fierce	cc
10	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wicked	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 allow	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 allow	cc
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 allow	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 allow	advmod
15	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 take	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 allow	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 destroy	mark
18	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 allow	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 destroy	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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	Guardian			wicked property	tree rules
3	be		Guardian not said here				tree rules
4	not allow	may	you not said here		you		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	destroy not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	Guardian			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (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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