--- title: Around him graze a thousand beasts, all of different kinds, for he i… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Around him graze a thousand beasts, all of different kinds, for he is the guardian of that wood, and it is he who will tell thee which way to go in order to find the adventure thou art in quest of.” Who acts: you, hunger, wood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hunger, wood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:30:26 # text = Around him graze a thousand beasts, all of different kinds, for he is the guardian of that wood, and it is he who will tell thee which way to go in order to find the adventure thou art in quest of.” 1 Around around ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 3 graze graze VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 guardian guardian NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 29 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 iobj _ _ 30 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 nsubj _ _ 41 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 quest quest NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **graze** | imperative | you *not said here* | thousand beasts | | | | around hunger | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | hunger | | | | | for the guardian; of that wood | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | wood | hunger | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | hunger | which way | thee | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient way=Topic | | 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | hunger *not said here* | which way *not said here* | | order | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location | | 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | hunger *not said here* | the adventure | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/27/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/)