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title: ‘If you cut down the pumpkin you shall cut off my hand with it,’ exc… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you cut down the pumpkin you shall cut off my hand with it,’ exclaimed the girl, running up to her tree and catching hold of it. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 88

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‘If you cut down the pumpkin you shall cut off my hand with it,’ exclaimed the girl, running up to her tree and catching hold of it.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cut down, cut off, exclaim, run up, catch, hold · **To what, where:** pumpkin, hand, girl, hold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. 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:pg3454:20:88
# text = ‘If you cut down the pumpkin you shall cut off my hand with it,’ exclaimed the girl, running up to her tree and catching hold of it.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
18	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
29	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | the pumpkin |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pumpkin=Product |
| 2 | **cut off** | shall | you | my hand |  |  |  | with hand | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  | the girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to Girl's tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result |
| 5 | **catch** | gerund |  | hold of hand |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 6 | **hold** |  |  | hand |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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