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title: 'Put your hand under my right wing and you will find a knife sharp e… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Put your hand under my right wing and you will find a knife sharp enough to take off his head,' said the raven. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 118

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'Put your hand under my right wing and you will find a knife sharp enough to take off his head,' said the raven.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, find, take off, say · **To what, where:** hand, right wing, knife, head, raven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. 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.

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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:pg3027:4:118
# text = 'Put your hand under my right wing and you will find a knife sharp enough to take off his head,' said the raven.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | infinitive |  | your hand |  | my right wing |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme under wing=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | future | you | a knife |  |  |  | sharp *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic |
| 3 | **take off** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | raven's head |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the raven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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