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title: This dwarf stands guarding an apple-tree, from which I am bound to p… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This dwarf stands guarding an apple-tree, from which I am bound to pluck an apple.’ Who acts: This, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 93

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This dwarf stands guarding an apple-tree, from which I am bound to pluck an apple.’

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**Who acts:** This, I · **What happens:** stand, guard, be, pluck · **To what, where:** apple tree, apple

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I), 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:pg3454:26:93
# text = This dwarf stands guarding an apple-tree, from which I am bound to pluck an apple.’
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **guard** | gerund | This *not said here* | a apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | bound *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pluck** | to-infinitive |  | a apple |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |

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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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