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title: I will bring you every day enough food to prevent you dying of hunge… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I will bring you every day enough food to prevent you dying of hunger, but you need never hope for freedom any more.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 188

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I will bring you every day enough food to prevent you dying of hunger, but you need never hope for freedom any more.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** bring, prevent, die, need, not hope · **To what, where:** enough food, you

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). 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), 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:pg640:5:188
# text = I will bring you every day enough food to prevent you dying of hunger, but you need never hope for freedom any more.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	xcomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	any	any	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	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 | **bring** | future | I | enough food | you |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination food=Theme |
| 2 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
| 4 | **need** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **hope** *not said to happen* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for freedom | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for freedom=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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