The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 28
But take care you milk her dry, or it may be the worse for you.’
Who acts: you, milk · What happens: take, be · To what, where: care
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, milk), 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 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dry | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 take | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 worse | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 worse | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 worse | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 worse | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 worse | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 worse | det |
| 14 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 take | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 worse | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | care | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | may | milk | for you; bad property | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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