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title: But when you leave this wood and come near a palace which does not b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when you leave this wood and come near a palace which does not belong to my domain, let the lion go, in order that he may not fall into the hands of an enemy and be killed.’ Who acts: you, palace, lion, Most. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), p
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 2

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But when you leave this wood and come near a palace which does not belong to my domain, let the lion go, in order that he may not fall into the hands of an enemy and be killed.’

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**Who acts:** you, palace, lion, Most · **What happens:** leave, come, not belong, let, go, not fall · **To what, where:** wood, palace, lion, order, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, palace, lion, Most), 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:pg640:31:2
# text = But when you leave this wood and come near a palace which does not belong to my domain, let the lion go, in order that he may not fall into the hands of an enemy and be killed.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	domain	domain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | you | this wood |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a palace |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palace=Location |
| 3 | **not** **belong** | present · do-support | a palace |  |  |  |  | to my domain | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the lion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | the lion *not said here* |  |  | order |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location |
| 6 | **not** **fall** | may | Most |  |  |  |  | into the hands of a enemy *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result |
| 7 | **kill** | infinitive · passive | Most *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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