The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 46

I shall take good care to keep by your side, and when the right fish comes I will give you a little push, and with that you will seize the fish and cut it up.

Who acts: I, right fish, you · What happens: take, keep, come, give, seize, cut up · To what, where: good care, little push, you, fish, push

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, right fish, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 care	amod
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 side	nmod:poss
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 comes	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fish	det
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fish	amod
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 give	advcl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 push	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 push	amod
24	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seize	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seize	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 you	case
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 with	fixed
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 seize	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 seize	aux
31	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fish	det
33	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seize	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cut	cc
35	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seize	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cut	obj
37	up	up	ADP	_	35 cut	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	shall	I	good care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here			by your side	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
3	come	present	the right fish				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	future	I	a little push	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient push=Theme
5	seize	future	you	the fish			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
6	cut up	infinitive	you not said here	push			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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