The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 77

But if you should happen to find yourself in any difficulty, and cannot tell what to do, take the goose’s wing from the basket, and throw it out of the window, and in a moment I will come to help you.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: happen, find, not tell, do, take, throw · To what, where: yourself, difficulty, wing, basket, window, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 happen	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 happen	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 happen	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happen	xcomp
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 find	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 difficulty	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 difficulty	det
11	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happen	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 goose	det
23	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wing	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 goose	case
25	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 basket	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 basket	det
28	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 throw	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 throw	cc
31	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 throw	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 window	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 window	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 window	det
36	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 throw	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 come	cc
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 moment	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 moment	det
41	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	obl
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 come	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
44	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 throw	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 help	mark
46	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 come	xcomp
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 help	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	should	you					tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	you not said here	yourself		any difficulty		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert	can	you not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	take	infinitive	you not said here	the goose's wing		the basket		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wing=Theme from basket=Initial_Location
6	throw	infinitive	you not said here	basket		the window		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme out window=Destination
7	come	future	I				moment	tree rules
8	help	to-infinitive	I not said here		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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