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title: If I put the ring upon the middle finger of my left hand, then neith… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If I put the ring upon the middle finger of my left hand, then neither fire nor water nor any sharp weapon can hurt me. Who acts: I, fire. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 103

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If I put the ring upon the middle finger of my left hand, then neither fire nor water nor any sharp weapon can hurt me.

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**Who acts:** I, fire · **What happens:** put, hurt · **To what, where:** ring, middle finger, me

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fire), 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:pg640:5:103
# text = If I put the ring upon the middle finger of my left hand, then neither fire nor water nor any sharp weapon can hurt me.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | the ring |  | the middle finger of my left hand |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme upon finger=Destination |
| 2 | **hurt** | can | neither fire nor water nor any sharp weapon | me |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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