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title: The kingdom is guarded on every side by wild beasts and horrible dra… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The kingdom is guarded on every side by wild beasts and horrible dragons; but I will tell you more about that, and I also have something to give you.’ Who acts: wild beasts, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 63

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The kingdom is guarded on every side by wild beasts and horrible dragons; but I will tell you more about that, and I also have something to give you.’

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**Who acts:** wild beasts, I · **What happens:** guard, tell, have, give · **To what, where:** kingdom, side, more, you, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild beasts, 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:pg641:21:63
# text = The kingdom is guarded on every side by wild beasts and horrible dragons; but I will tell you more about that, and I also have something to give you.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present · passive | wild beasts and horrible dragons | the kingdom |  | every side |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | more | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | something *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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