The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 63

‘Take one of my scales,’ said the fish, ‘and when you find yourself in danger, throw it in the fire.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, say, find, throw · To what, where: one, fish, yourself, danger, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Take	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 scales	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 scales	nmod:poss
6	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fish	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 throw	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 find	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
17	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 throw	advcl
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 find	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 danger	case
20	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
22	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 throw	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 fire	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fire	det
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throw	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	infinitive		one of my scales		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the fish and ‘		tree rules
3	find	present	you	yourself	danger	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic
4	throw	infinitive		danger	the fire	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fire=Destination

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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