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title: ‘Unless you restore my brothers and their beasts back to life at onc… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Unless you restore my brothers and their beasts back to life at once, my lion will tear you in pieces.’ Who acts: you, lion. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 137

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‘Unless you restore my brothers and their beasts back to life at once, my lion will tear you in pieces.’

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**Who acts:** you, lion · **What happens:** restore, tear · **To what, where:** brothers, life, you, pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lion), 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:pg641:5:137
# text = ‘Unless you restore my brothers and their beasts back to life at once, my lion will tear you in pieces.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	restore	restore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restore** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | my brothers and brothers's beasts | life |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to life=Recipient |
| 2 | **tear** | future | my lion | you |  | pieces |  |  | tree rules |

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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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