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title: ‘Take this long copper pin,’ she went on, ‘and every time you stick… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Take this long copper pin,’ she went on, ‘and every time you stick it in your dress Mother Bourhis will be obliged to leave the house in order to go and count her cabbages. Who acts: you, this, woman, dress. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with it
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 60

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‘Take this long copper pin,’ she went on, ‘and every time you stick it in your dress Mother Bourhis will be obliged to leave the house in order to go and count her cabbages.

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**Who acts:** you, this, woman, dress · **What happens:** take, pin, go on, stick, oblige, leave · **To what, where:** pin, dress, Mother, house, cabbages

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, woman, dress), 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:pg3454:32:60
# text = ‘Take this long copper pin,’ she went on, ‘and every time you stick it in your dress Mother Bourhis will be obliged to leave the house in order to go and count her cabbages.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	Bourhis	Bourhis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	35	mark	_	_
33	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	fixed	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pin** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go on** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stick** | present | you | pin |  | your dress | time |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in dress=Destination |
| 5 | **oblige** | future · passive | your dress *not said here* | Mother |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 6 | **leave** | to-infinitive | your dress *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | your dress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **count** | infinitive | your dress *not said here* | woman's cabbages |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Theme |

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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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