---
title: ‘Squeeze too tight And I’ll bite, If my neck a twist you gave I’d br… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Squeeze too tight And I’ll bite, If my neck a twist you gave I’d bring you to an early grave.’ Who acts: I, you, neck. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/6/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/) / 6

# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 6

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘Squeeze too tight And I’ll bite, If my neck a twist you gave I’d bring you to an early grave.’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, you, neck · **What happens:** bite, give, have, bring · **To what, where:** twist, you, early grave

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, neck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg641:28:6
# text = ‘Squeeze too tight And I’ll bite, If my neck a twist you gave I’d bring you to an early grave.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | you | a twist *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | my neck |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | my neck *not said here* | you |  | a early grave |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to grave=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/5/)
- next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/7/)
- ↑ back to [The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/)