The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 10

But be careful not to return to the stable or to the bedroom; they have proved too fatal to you.

Who acts: you, things · What happens: be, not return, prove

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, things), 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	_	3 careful	cc
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 careful	cop
3	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 return	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 return	mark
6	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 careful	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 stable	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stable	det
9	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 return	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 bedroom	cc
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 bedroom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bedroom	det
13	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stable	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 proved	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 proved	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 proved	aux
17	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 return	advcl
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 fatal	advmod
19	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 proved	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 fatal	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here	careful property	tree rules
2	not return	to-infinitive		to the stable or the bedroom result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to stable=Result
3	prove	present · perfect	things = thing	fatal property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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