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title: Take these four eggs; if you break one when you are in any great dif… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Take these four eggs; if you break one when you are in any great difficulty, you will find aid.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 78

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Take these four eggs; if you break one when you are in any great difficulty, you will find aid.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, break, be, find · **To what, where:** four eggs, one, great difficulty, aid

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (you), 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:pg7277:4:78
# text = Take these four eggs; if you break one when you are in any great difficulty, you will find aid.’
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
21	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | this four eggs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 2 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | one |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  | any great difficulty |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | future | you | aid |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Topic |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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