More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 70

Then seize me quick, and whatever change befall me, for they will exercise all their magic on me, cling hold to me till they turn me into red-hot iron.

Who acts: you, change, Elves · What happens: seize, befall, exercise, turn · To what, where: me, magic, hot iron

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, change, Elves), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 seize	advmod
2	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seize	obj
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seize	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 befall	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 befall	cc
7	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	8 change	det
8	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 befall	nsubj
9	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seize	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 befall	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 exercise	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 exercise	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 exercise	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 exercise	aux
15	exercise	exercise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 befall	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 magic	det:predet
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 magic	nmod:poss
18	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 exercise	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 exercise	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hold	punct
22	cling	cling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	compound
23	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 exercise	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hold	nmod
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 turn	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 turn	nsubj
28	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 exercise	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 turn	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	34 iron	case
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hot	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 red	punct
33	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 iron	amod
34	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turn	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seize	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	imperative	you not said here	me		then	quick property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	befall	infinitive	whatever change	me				tree rules
3	exercise	future	Elves = elf	Elves's magic			on me	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient
4	turn	present	Elves = elf	me	hot iron			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme into iron=Trajectory

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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