The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 75

‘To-morrow,’ said the old man, ‘you must bring the white-headed calf to the meadow, and, as you value your life, take care it does not escape from you.’

Who acts: you, care · What happens: say, bring, value, take, not escape · To what, where: old man, headed calf, meadow, life, care · Speech: someone speaks here

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, care), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 morrow	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morrow	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 bring	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bring	aux
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 calf	det
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 headed	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 white	punct
19	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 calf	amod
20	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 meadow	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meadow	det
23	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 take	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 and	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 value	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 value	nsubj
29	value	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 take	advcl
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 value	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 value	punct
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
34	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 escape	nsubj
36	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 escape	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 escape	advmod
38	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 take	conj
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 you	case
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 escape	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the old man		to morrow	tree rules
2	bring	must	you	the headed calf	the meadow		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent calf=Theme to meadow=Destination
3	value	present	you	your life			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
4	take	infinitive		care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	not escape	present · do-support	care			from you	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from you=Initial_Location

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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