The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 54
Pull out one of my hairs, and when you are in danger twist it in your fingers, and I will come.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: pull out, be, twist, come · To what, where: one, danger, fox, 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 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Pull | compound:prt |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Pull | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hairs | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 twist | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 twist | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 danger | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 danger | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 danger | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 danger | case |
| 13 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 twist | advcl |
| 14 | twist | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pull | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 twist | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fingers | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 twist | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pull | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pull | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | imperative | you not said here | one of my hairs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | twist | present | you not said here | fox | 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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