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title: I shall take good care to keep by your side, and when the right fish… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall take good care to keep by your side, and when the right fish comes I will give you a little push, and with that you will seize the fish and cut it up. Who acts: I, right fish, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 46

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I shall take good care to keep by your side, and when the right fish comes I will give you a little push, and with that you will seize the fish and cut it up.

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**Who acts:** I, right fish, you · **What happens:** take, keep, come, give, seize, cut up · **To what, where:** good care, little push, you, fish, push

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, right fish, 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:pg5615:27:46
# text = I shall take good care to keep by your side, and when the right fish comes I will give you a little push, and with that you will seize the fish and cut it up.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | I | good care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by your side | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 3 | **come** | present | the right fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | future | I | a little push | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient push=Theme |
| 5 | **seize** | future | you | the fish |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 6 | **cut up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | push |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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