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title: Because Hermod would not fall in with the Queen’s plans, and marry h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Because Hermod would not fall in with the Queen’s plans, and marry her daughter, she has laid a spell on him, to go on an island and be a lion by day and a man by night, and never be freed from this until you burn the lion’s skin. Who acts: Queen, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 31

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Because Hermod would not fall in with the Queen’s plans, and marry her daughter, she has laid a spell on him, to go on an island and be a lion by day and a man by night, and never be freed from this until you burn the lion’s skin.

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**Who acts:** Queen, you · **What happens:** not fall in, marry, lay, go, be, not free · **To what, where:** daughter, spell, island, lion, this, skin

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, you), 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:pg640:49:31
# text = Because Hermod would not fall in with the Queen’s plans, and marry her daughter, she has laid a spell on him, to go on an island and be a lion by day and a man by night, and never be freed from this until you burn the lion’s skin.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	2	case	_	_
2	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	obl	_	_
49	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’s	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	_
55	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fall in** | would |  |  |  |  |  | because Hermod; with the Queen's plans | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | infinitive |  | Queen's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | present · perfect | Queen | a spell |  |  |  | on Hermod | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a island | night |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a lion and a man |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **free** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  | this |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING» |
| 7 | **burn** | present | you | the lion's skin |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 8 | **plan** |  | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition 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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