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title: The Fairy, foreseeing this, put everyone in the world under a spell,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fairy, foreseeing this, put everyone in the world under a spell, which prevents their obeying the Sun’s command to take your life. Who acts: Fairy, spell, 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 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 30

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The Fairy, foreseeing this, put everyone in the world under a spell, which prevents their obeying the Sun’s command to take your life.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, spell, wolves · **What happens:** foresee, put, prevent, obey, take, command · **To what, where:** this, everyone, world, obeying command, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fairy, spell, 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:pg640:38:30
# text = The Fairy, foreseeing this, put everyone in the world under a spell, which prevents their obeying the Sun’s command to take your life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	foreseeing	foresee	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	prevents	prevent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
19	obeying	obey	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foresee** | gerund | the Fairy *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | the Fairy | everyone |  | the world |  | under a spell | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme in world=Destination |
| 3 | **prevent** | present | a spell | wolves's obeying command |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer command=Theme |
| 4 | **obey** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | a spell *not said here* | your life |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 6 | **command** |  | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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