The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 28
‘Take care what you are asking,’ replied the wise man.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, ask, reply · To what, where: care, wise man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 asking | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 asking | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asking | aux |
| 7 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Take | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present · progressive | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the wise man | 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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