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title: Take three drops of blood from the child’s little finger, rub them o… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Take three drops of blood from the child’s little finger, rub them on your servant’s wrists with a blade of grass and he will return to life.” Who acts: you, servant. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 105

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Take three drops of blood from the child’s little finger, rub them on your servant’s wrists with a blade of grass and he will return to life.”

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**Who acts:** you, servant · **What happens:** take, rub, return · **To what, where:** three drops, little finger, drops

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, servant), 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:pg2435:2:105
# text = Take three drops of blood from the child’s little finger, rub them on your servant’s wrists with a blade of grass and he will return to life.”
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	rub	rub	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	wrists	wrist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | three drops of blood |  | the child's little finger |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent drop=Theme from finger=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **rub** | infinitive | you *not said here* | drops *= drop* |  |  |  | with a blade of grass; on your servant's wrists | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer on wrist=Theme with blade=Instrument |
| 3 | **return** | future | servant |  |  |  |  | to life *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to life=Result |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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