The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 50

Take one of my scales, and when you are in danger twist it in your fingers, and I will come!’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, be, twist, come · To what, where: one, danger, fingers

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Take	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 scales	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 scales	nmod:poss
5	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 twist	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 twist	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 danger	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 danger	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 danger	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 danger	case
12	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twist	advcl
13	twist	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 twist	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 fingers	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fingers	nmod:poss
17	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 twist	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 come	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	one of my scales		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	is	present	you		danger	tree rules
3	twist	present		danger	your fingers	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	come	future	I			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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