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title: If I put it on the forefinger of my left hand, then I can with its h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If I put it on the forefinger of my left hand, then I can with its help produce whatever I wish. Who acts: I, ring. 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 104

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If I put it on the forefinger of my left hand, then I can with its help produce whatever I wish.

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**Who acts:** I, ring · **What happens:** put, produce, wish, help · **To what, where:** ring, forefinger, whatever

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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, ring), 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:pg640:5:104
# text = If I put it on the forefinger of my left hand, then I can with its help produce whatever I wish.
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	19	advcl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forefinger	forefinger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | ring |  | the forefinger of my left hand |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on forefinger=Destination |
| 2 | **produce** | can | I |  |  |  | then | with ring's help | tree rules |
| 3 | **wish** | present | I | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme |
| 4 | **help** |  | ring |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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