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title: I also lay this belt beside you, to put on when you awaken; it will… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I also lay this belt beside you, to put on when you awaken; it will keep you from growing faint with hunger.’ Who acts: I, you, clew. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 70

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I also lay this belt beside you, to put on when you awaken; it will keep you from growing faint with hunger.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, clew · **What happens:** lay, put on, awaken, keep, grow · **To what, where:** belt, you

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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 (I, you, clew), 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:pg640:49:70
# text = I also lay this belt beside you, to put on when you awaken; it will keep you from growing faint with hunger.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	awaken	awaken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
22	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | I | this belt |  |  |  | beside you | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent belt=Theme beside you=Destination |
| 2 | **put on** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **awaken** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | future | clew | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with hunger; faint *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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