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title: Lend thy aid ‘gainst her who sinned! — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Lend thy aid ‘gainst her who sinned! Who acts: you, aid. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 48

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Lend thy aid ‘gainst her who sinned!

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**Who acts:** you, aid · **What happens:** lend, gainst, sin · **To what, where:** aid, sun

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, aid), 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:pg503:26:48
# text = Lend thy aid ‘gainst her who sinned!
1	Lend	lend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	gainst	gainst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sinned	sin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy aid |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Theme |
| 2 | **gainst** | past | thy aid *not said here* | sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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