Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 32

And take care, above all things, that you say nothing of what was brought you on the golden salver."

Who acts: you · What happens: take, say, bring · To what, where: care, things, nothing, you, golden salver · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 take	cc
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 things	punct
5	above	above	ADP	_	7 things	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 things	det
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 say	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 take	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 say	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 nothing	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	aux:pass
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 what	acl:relcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 brought	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 salver	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 salver	det
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 salver	amod
21	salver	salver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	care	all things	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	you	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	bring	past · passive		you	the golden salver	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: you=Theme on salver=Destination

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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