Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 8

But you must take care not to stray away from them, nor go wandering about the fields by yourself.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, not stray away, go, wonder · To what, where: care

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. 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	_	4 take	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stray	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stray	mark
8	stray	stray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 stray	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stray	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 go	cc
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	conj
15	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 go	xcomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 fields	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fields	det
18	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wandering	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 yourself	case
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 wandering	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	must	you	care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	not stray away	to-infinitive	you not said here		from creatures = creature; away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory
3	go	present	you not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wonder speech: ask	gerund	you not said here		about the fields; by yourself	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about field=Stimulus

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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