The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 7

He could then take the bird, but he must beware of stroking it; otherwise it would go ill with him.

Who acts: fox, bird · What happens: take, beware, stroke, go · To what, where: bird

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, bird), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beware	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 beware	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beware	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 beware	aux
11	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 stroking	mark
13	stroking	stroke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 beware	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stroking	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
16	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 go	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ill	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	could	fox		the bird	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination
2	beware	must	fox					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	stroke	gerund	fox not said here	bird				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	go	would	bird				ill, otherwise property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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