The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 58

Take a lock of my fur, and when you need me twist it in your fingers.’

Who acts: you · What happens: take, need, twist · To what, where: lock, me, 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), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lock	det
3	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fur	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fur	nmod:poss
6	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lock	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 twist	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 twist	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 need	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 need	nsubj
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 twist	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 need	obj
13	twist	twist	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
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	_	1 Take	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	a lock of my fur		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme
2	need	present	you	me		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
3	twist	infinitive	you not said here	lock	your fingers	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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