The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 20

But I used to say, “Take care--the town is large, there are plenty of bad people in it--keep a sharp eye on Jem.”

Who acts: I, town, plenty · What happens: use, say, take, be, keep · To what, where: care, sharp eye, Jem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (I, town, plenty), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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