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title: You must guard the tree for nine days and nine nights from the ravag… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You must guard the tree for nine days and nine nights from the ravages of two wild black wolves, who will try to harm it. Who acts: You, two wild black wolves. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 20

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You must guard the tree for nine days and nine nights from the ravages of two wild black wolves, who will try to harm it.

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**Who acts:** You, two wild black wolves · **What happens:** guard, try, harm, ravage · **To what, where:** tree, task, two wild black wolves

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, two wild black wolves), 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:pg640:38:20
# text = You must guard the tree for nine days and nine nights from the ravages of two wild black wolves, who will try to harm it.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ravages	ravage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | must | You | the tree |  |  | day |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **try** | future | two wild black wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **harm** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | two wild black wolves *not said here* | task |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 4 | **ravage** |  |  | two wild black wolves |  |  |  |  | nom ravage «event transitive»: of=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 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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