The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 78

Take these four eggs; if you break one when you are in any great difficulty, you will find aid.’

Who acts: you · What happens: take, break, be, find · To what, where: four eggs, one, great difficulty, aid

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. 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	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 eggs	det
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eggs	nummod
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 break	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 break	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 break	nsubj
8	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 break	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 difficulty	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 difficulty	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 difficulty	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 difficulty	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 difficulty	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 difficulty	amod
16	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 find	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 find	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 find	aux
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
21	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 find	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	this four eggs		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
2	break a condition, not said to happen	present	you	one		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient
3	is	present	you		any great difficulty	tree rules
4	find	future	you	aid		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Topic

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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