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title: If you don't get away quick, I'll throw a panful of hot dish-water o… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: If you don't get away quick, I'll throw a panful of hot dish-water over you. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 5

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If you don't get away quick, I'll throw a panful of hot dish-water over you.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not get away, throw · **To what, where:** panful

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. 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.

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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:pg18442:50:5
# text = If you don't get away quick, I'll throw a panful of hot dish-water over you.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	panful	panful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get away** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | away, quick *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | future | I | a panful of hot dish water |  |  |  | over you | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent panful=Theme over you=Destination |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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