The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 36

But take care how you come across me again, or you may not escape so easily!’

Who acts: you · What happens: take, come, not escape · To what, where: care

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. 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	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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 take	advcl
7	across	across	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 escape	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 escape	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 escape	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 escape	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 escape	advmod
15	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 easily	advmod
17	easily	easily	ADV	_	15 escape	advmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	come	present	you		again	across me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across i=Initial_Location
3	not escape	may	you			easily property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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