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title: Then the Sun-Hero strove with all his might and kept the black wolve… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Sun-Hero strove with all his might and kept the black wolves at bay, and conquered his desire to sleep; but on the eighth night his strength failed him, and he fell fast asleep. Who acts: Sun Hero, strength, sun. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-her
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 33

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Then the Sun-Hero strove with all his might and kept the black wolves at bay, and conquered his desire to sleep; but on the eighth night his strength failed him, and he fell fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** Sun Hero, strength, sun · **What happens:** strive, keep, conquer, sleep, fail, fall · **To what, where:** black wolves, bay, desire, sun

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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 (Sun Hero, strength, sun), 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:pg640:38:33
# text = Then the Sun-Hero strove with all his might and kept the black wolves at bay, and conquered his desire to sleep; but on the eighth night his strength failed him, and he fell fast asleep.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
39	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
40	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strive** | past | the Sun Hero |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the Sun Hero *not said here* | the black wolves |  | bay |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme at bay=Location |
| 3 | **conquer** | past |  | sun's desire |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fail** | past | sun's strength | sun |  |  | night |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 6 | **fall** | past | strength |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **desire** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling 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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