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title: Then seize me quick, and whatever change befall me, for they will ex… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then seize me quick, and whatever change befall me, for they will exercise all their magic on me, cling hold to me till they turn me into red-hot iron. Who acts: you, change, Elves. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 70

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Then seize me quick, and whatever change befall me, for they will exercise all their magic on me, cling hold to me till they turn me into red-hot iron.

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**Who acts:** you, change, Elves · **What happens:** seize, befall, exercise, turn · **To what, where:** me, magic, hot iron

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, change, Elves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:29:70
# text = Then seize me quick, and whatever change befall me, for they will exercise all their magic on me, cling hold to me till they turn me into red-hot iron.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	seize	seize	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	exercise	exercise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	cling	cling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  | then | quick *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **befall** | infinitive | whatever change | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exercise** | future | Elves *= elf* | Elves's magic |  |  |  | on me | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | present | Elves *= elf* | me |  | hot iron |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme into iron=Trajectory |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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