The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 139

Now, you take my advice--which won’t cost you anything--and remember that it is always more economical to buy fruit with stones on this account.’

Who acts: you, advice, it · What happens: take, not cost, remember, be, buy · To what, where: advice, anything, you, fruit, account · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, advice, it), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 take	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 advice	nmod:poss
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 cost	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cost	nsubj
9	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cost	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 cost	advmod
11	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 advice	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 cost	iobj
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 cost	obj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 remember	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 remember	cc
16	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 economical	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 economical	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 economical	cop
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 economical	advmod
22	economical	economical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 remember	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 buy	mark
24	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 economical	xcomp
25	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 buy	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 stones	case
27	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 buy	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 account	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 account	det
30	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 buy	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	you	my advice			now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
2	not cost	future	my advice	anything	you				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary anything=Value
3	remember	infinitive	you not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	it					economical property	tree rules
5	buy	to-infinitive		fruit		this account		with stones	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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