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title: Take thee three feathers of mine, and, if you are in a difficulty, b… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Take thee three feathers of mine, and, if you are in a difficulty, burn one and I will be with you in the twinkling of an eye.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 111

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Take thee three feathers of mine, and, if you are in a difficulty, burn one and I will be with you in the twinkling of an eye.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** take, be, burn · **To what, where:** thee, twinkling, difficulty, one

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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, 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:pg3282:4:111
# text = Take thee three feathers of mine, and, if you are in a difficulty, burn one and I will be with you in the twinkling of an eye.”
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	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* | thee |  | the twinkling of a eye |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument thou=Theme feather=Destination |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | a difficulty |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | future | I |  |  |  |  | with you | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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