The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 111

Take thee three feathers of mine, and, if you are in a difficulty, burn one and I will be with you in the twinkling of an eye.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, be, burn · To what, where: thee, twinkling, difficulty, one

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Take	obj
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feathers	nummod
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mine	case
6	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feathers	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 difficulty	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 difficulty	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 difficulty	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 difficulty	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 difficulty	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 difficulty	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 difficulty	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 difficulty	det
15	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burn	punct
17	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	advcl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 burn	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 you	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 you	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 you	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 you	cop
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Take	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 twinkling	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 twinkling	det
27	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 eye	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 eye	det
30	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 twinkling	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	thee	the twinkling of a eye		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument thou=Theme feather=Destination
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you		a difficulty		tree rules
3	burn	infinitive	you not said here	one			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	is	future	I			with you	tree rules

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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