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title: But just now you must take a red silk thread and tie it round my lit… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But just now you must take a red silk thread and tie it round my little finger, so that you may be able to recognise me again, into whatever shape she turns me.’ Who acts: you, witch. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 29

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But just now you must take a red silk thread and tie it round my little finger, so that you may be able to recognise me again, into whatever shape she turns me.’

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**Who acts:** you, witch · **What happens:** take, tie, be, recognise, turn · **To what, where:** red silk thread, thread, me

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, witch), 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:pg5615:26:29
# text = But just now you must take a red silk thread and tie it round my little finger, so that you may be able to recognise me again, into whatever shape she turns me.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	32	det	_	_
32	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | must | you | a red silk thread |  |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |
| 2 | **tie** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thread |  |  |  | round my little finger | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | may | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **recognise** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 5 | **turn** | present | witch | me |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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