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title: When His angel is your guide, Little Lasse, Lasse, Then no harm can… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When His angel is your guide, Little Lasse, Lasse, Then no harm can e’er betide, Even on the other side Where the wild beasts wander. Who acts: angel, harm, wild beasts. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 7

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When His angel is your guide, Little Lasse, Lasse, Then no harm can e’er betide, Even on the other side Where the wild beasts wander.

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**Who acts:** angel, harm, wild beasts · **What happens:** be, e'er, betide, wander · **To what, where:** guide, other side

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, harm, wild beasts), 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:pg3454:15:7
# text = When His angel is your guide, Little Lasse, Lasse, Then no harm can e’er betide, Even on the other side Where the wild beasts wander.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	e’er	e'er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
18	betide	betide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wander	wander	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Lasse's angel | your guide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **e'er** | can | no harm |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **betide** | infinitive | no harm *not said here* |  |  | the other side |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wander** | present | the wild beasts |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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