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title: But for you, O my children, whose lives are but newly begun, the wic… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But for you, O my children, whose lives are but newly begun, the wickedness, unkindness, and ingratitude from which I fled are before you. Who acts: I, wickedness. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 3

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But for you, O my children, whose lives are but newly begun, the wickedness, unkindness, and ingratitude from which I fled are before you.

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**Who acts:** I, wickedness · **What happens:** begin, flee, be · **To what, where:** lives, wickedness

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wickedness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:1747`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:25:3
# text = But for you, O my children, whose lives are but newly begun, the wickedness, unkindness, and ingratitude from which I fled are before you.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	O	O	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
12	but	but	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	unkindness	unkindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present · passive |  | lives |  |  |  | but, newly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flee** | past | I |  |  | the wickedness and unkindness and ingratitude |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the wickedness and unkindness and ingratitude |  |  |  | before you | for you; my children *vocative* | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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