The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 29

But just now you must take a red silk thread and tie it round my little finger, so that you may be able to recognise me again, into whatever shape she turns me.’

Who acts: you, witch · What happens: take, tie, be, recognise, turn · To what, where: red silk thread, thread, me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, witch), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 take	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 now	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 take	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thread	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thread	amod
9	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thread	compound
10	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tie	cc
12	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tie	obj
14	round	round	ADP	_	17 finger	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 finger	nmod:poss
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 finger	amod
17	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tie	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 able	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 able	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 able	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 able	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 able	cop
24	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 take	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 recognise	mark
26	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 able	xcomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 recognise	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 recognise	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shape	punct
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 shape	case
31	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	32 shape	det
32	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 recognise	parataxis
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 turns	nsubj
34	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 shape	acl:relcl
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 turns	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	must	you	a red silk thread	now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
2	tie	infinitive	you not said here	thread		round my little finger	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	may	you			able property	tree rules
4	recognise	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
5	turn	present	witch	me			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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