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title: Only a warrior can deliver me now, a young giant who is strong to wi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 21

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Only a warrior can deliver me now, a young giant who is strong to wield the battle-axe: whose sword deals deadly blows.’

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**Who acts:** warrior, young giant, sword · **What happens:** deliver, be, wield, deal · **To what, where:** me, battle axe, deadly blows

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warrior, young giant, sword), 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:pg641:38:21
# text = Only a warrior can deliver me now, a young giant who is strong to wield the battle-axe: whose sword deals deadly blows.’
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	wield	wield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	deals	deal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | can | a warrior | me |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | a young giant |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wield** | to-infinitive |  | the battle axe |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 4 | **deal** | present | sword | deadly blows |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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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