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title: Then you can put Solomon’s ring upon your left thumb and give him th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then you can put Solomon’s ring upon your left thumb and give him the finishing stroke, but keep the ring on your third finger until you have come close to him, so that the monster cannot see you, else he might strike you dead with his long tail. Who acts: you, monster, Solomon. A sentence of «The Y
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 144

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Then you can put Solomon’s ring upon your left thumb and give him the finishing stroke, but keep the ring on your third finger until you have come close to him, so that the monster cannot see you, else he might strike you dead with his long tail.

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**Who acts:** you, monster, Solomon · **What happens:** put, give, keep, come, not see, strike · **To what, where:** ring, left thumb, finishing stroke, Solomon, third finger, you

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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 (you, monster, Solomon), 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:pg640:5:144
# text = Then you can put Solomon’s ring upon your left thumb and give him the finishing stroke, but keep the ring on your third finger until you have come close to him, so that the monster cannot see you, else he might strike you dead with his long tail.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	finishing	finishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
31	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	41	mark	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	else	else	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | can | you | Solomon's ring |  | your left thumb | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme upon thumb=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the finishing stroke | Solomon |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stroke=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive |  | the ring |  | your third finger |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Location |
| 4 | **come** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **see** | can | the monster | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 6 | **strike** | might | Solomon | you |  |  |  | with Solomon's long tail; dead, else *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with tail=Instrument |

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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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