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title: When he awoke a woman in black stood beside him, who said: ‘You have… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 34

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When he awoke a woman in black stood beside him, who said: ‘You have fulfilled your task very badly, for you have let the two black wolves damage the Tree of the Sun. I am the mother of the Sun, and I command you to ride away from here at once, and I pronounce sentence of death upon you, for you proudly let yourself be called the Sun-Hero without having done anything to deserve the name.’

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**Who acts:** strength, You, two black wolves, I, yourself, your · **What happens:** awake, stand, say, fulfil, let, damage · **To what, where:** woman, black, task, you, mother, sentence · **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 (strength, You, two black wolves, I), 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:pg640:38:34
# text = When he awoke a woman in black stood beside him, who said: ‘You have fulfilled your task very badly, for you have let the two black wolves damage the Tree of the Sun. I am the mother of the Sun, and I command you to ride away from here at once, and I pronounce sentence of death upon you, for you proudly let yourself be called the Sun-Hero without having done anything to deserve the name.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	damage	damage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	command	command	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
61	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
64	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
67	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	70	mark	_	_
68	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
69	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	_
70	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	conj	_	_
71	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	70	obj	_	_
72	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	73	aux:pass	_	_
73	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	70	xcomp	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
75	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	77	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	75	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	Hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	xcomp	_	_
78	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	80	mark	_	_
79	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	80	aux	_	_
80	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	70	xcomp	_	_
81	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	80	obj	_	_
82	to	to	PART	TO	_	83	mark	_	_
83	deserve	deserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	80	advcl	_	_
84	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	85	det	_	_
85	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
87	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | strength | a woman |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woman=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | black |  | beside strength | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in black=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fulfil** | present · perfect | You | your task |  |  |  | badly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  | the Tree of the Sun. *obl* | tree rules |
| 6 | **damage** | present | the two black wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | present | I | the mother |  |  |  | of the Sun | tree rules |
| 8 | **command** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 9 | **ride away** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **pronounce** | present | I | sentence of death |  |  |  | upon you | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme |
| 11 | **let** | infinitive | you | yourself |  |  |  | proudly *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **call** | infinitive · passive | yourself *not said here* | the Sun Hero |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 13 | **do** | gerund · perfect | yourself *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 14 | **deserve** | to-infinitive | yourself *not said here* | the name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 15 | **task** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 16 | **sentence** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom sentence «communication 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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