The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 77

‘I came here by accident,’ replied Souci, ‘and if I ever escape from your clutches I will take warning by you and treat my subjects differently.’

Who acts: I, your · What happens: come, reply, escape, take, treat, clutch · To what, where: Souci, clutches, warning, subjects

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), 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	_	3 came	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 accident	case
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
10	Souci	Souci	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 escape	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 escape	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 escape	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 escape	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 escape	nsubj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 escape	advmod
17	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 clutches	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 clutches	nmod:poss
20	clutches	clutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 escape	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 escape	conj
24	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 take	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 treat	cc
28	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 subjects	nmod:poss
30	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 treat	obj
31	differently	differently	ADV	_	28 treat	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	I		here		by accident	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by accident=Location
2	reply speech: assert	past		Souci				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent souci=Topic
3	escape a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	I		your clutches	ever		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clutch=Initial_Location
4	take	future	I	warning			by you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme
5	treat	infinitive	I not said here	my subjects			differently property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
6	clutch		your					nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=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 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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