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title: Be quick! save yourself from this whirlpool of destruction, for the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Be quick! save yourself from this whirlpool of destruction, for the demons and peris. who guard me will wake and seize you.’ Who acts: you, demons, destruction. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 70

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Be quick! save yourself from this whirlpool of destruction, for the demons and peris. who guard me will wake and seize you.’

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**Who acts:** you, demons, destruction · **What happens:** be, save, guard, wake, seize, whirlpool · **To what, where:** yourself, whirlpool, me, you

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, demons, destruction), 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:pg3282:5:70
# text = Be quick! save yourself from this whirlpool of destruction, for the demons and peris. who guard me will wake and seize you.’
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	iobj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	peris	peri	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	guard	guard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | yourself | this whirlpool of destruction |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme from whirlpool=Source |
| 3 | **guard** | present | the demons and peris |  | me |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **wake** | future | the demons and peris |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **seize** | infinitive | the demons and peris *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **whirlpool** |  | destruction |  |  |  |  |  | nom whirlpool «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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