The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 12

But take care you never cross the border of my land, or you will repent it.’

Who acts: you · What happens: take, not cross, repent · To what, where: care, border

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. 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	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cross	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 cross	advmod
6	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 take	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 border	det
8	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 land	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 land	nmod:poss
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 border	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 repent	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 repent	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 repent	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 repent	aux
16	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 repent	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	not cross	present	you	the border of my land	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Patient
3	repent	future	you	care	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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