The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 14

But take care to be quick and bold, or it will be the worse for you.’

Who acts: you, care · What happens: take, be · To what, where: care

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. 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	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	to	to	PART	_	6 quick	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 quick	cop
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 take	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bold	cc
8	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quick	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worse	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 worse	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 worse	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 worse	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 worse	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 worse	det
15	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 quick	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 worse	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive			quick property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules
4	is	future	care		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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