The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 35

“Take a single hair from one of my wings,” said he, “and if you are in danger just wish yourself a bee and you will become one.

Who acts: bee, you · What happens: take, say, be, wish, become · To what, where: single hair, danger, bee, yourself, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bee, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hair	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Take	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wings	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wings	nmod:poss
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wish	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 wish	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wish	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 danger	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 danger	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 danger	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 danger	case
22	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wish	advcl
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 wish	advmod
24	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
25	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 wish	iobj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bee	det
27	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wish	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 become	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 become	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 become	aux
31	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wish	conj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 become	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive		a single hair			from one of my wings	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme from one=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	bee					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			danger		tree rules
4	wish in a quote	infinitive		a bee	yourself			tree rules
5	become in a quote	future	you	one				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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