The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 69

Set your clumsy fingers to work upon it, for I must have it disentangled by sunset, and if you break a single thread it will be the worse for you.’

Who acts: you, I, finger, thread · What happens: set, work, have, disentangle, break, be · To what, where: clumsy fingers, finger, single thread

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. 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, finger, thread), 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	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fingers	nmod:poss
3	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fingers	amod
4	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Set	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Set	advcl
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 work	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 work	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	obj
15	disentangled	disentangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 have	xcomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 sunset	case
17	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 disentangled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 worse	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 worse	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 break	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 break	nsubj
22	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 worse	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thread	det
24	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thread	amod
25	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 break	obj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 worse	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 worse	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 worse	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 worse	det
30	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Set	parataxis
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 worse	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Set	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	imperative	you not said here	your clumsy fingers			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient finger=Result
2	work	to-infinitive	you not said here			upon finger	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	must	I	finger			tree rules
4	disentangle	participle	finger not said here		sunset		vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	break a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a single thread			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thread=Patient
6	is	future	thread			for you; bad property	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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