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title: Guard thyself!' and bending suddenly he seized the hero in his hands… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Guard thyself!' and bending suddenly he seized the hero in his hands and dashed him upon the ground. Who acts: Guard. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 32

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Guard thyself!' and bending suddenly he seized the hero in his hands and dashed him upon the ground.

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**Who acts:** Guard · **What happens:** bend, seize, dash · **To what, where:** hero, hands, Guard, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guard), 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:pg3027:2:32
# text = Guard thyself!' and bending suddenly he seized the hero in his hands and dashed him upon the ground.
1	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | gerund | Guard *not said here* |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seize** | past | Guard | the hero |  | Guard's hands |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme |
| 3 | **dash** | past | Guard *not said here* | Guard |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon ground=Trajectory |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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