--- title: But if you should happen to find yourself in any difficulty, and can… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But if you should happen to find yourself in any difficulty, and cannot tell what to do, take the goose’s wing from the basket, and throw it out of the window, and in a moment I will come to help you. Who acts: you, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:12:77 # text = But if you should happen to find yourself in any difficulty, and cannot tell what to do, take the goose’s wing from the basket, and throw it out of the window, and in a moment I will come to help you. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 difficulty difficulty NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 out out ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | should | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself | | any difficulty | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the goose's wing | | the basket | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent wing=Theme from basket=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | basket | | the window | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme out window=Destination | | 7 | **come** | future | I | | | | moment | | tree rules | | 8 | **help** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | you | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | 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. **Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/78/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)