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title: I alone have kept guard over her, and have gone daily to my own cast… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I alone have kept guard over her, and have gone daily to my own castle to get food and to beat the greedy gold-seekers who forced their way into my dwelling. Who acts: I, greedy gold seekers. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 60

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I alone have kept guard over her, and have gone daily to my own castle to get food and to beat the greedy gold-seekers who forced their way into my dwelling.

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**Who acts:** I, greedy gold seekers · **What happens:** keep, go, get, beat, force · **To what, where:** guard, own castle, food, greedy gold seekers, way, dwelling

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, greedy gold seekers), 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:pg7277:55:60
# text = I alone have kept guard over her, and have gone daily to my own castle to get food and to beat the greedy gold-seekers who forced their way into my dwelling.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	seekers	seeker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · perfect | I | guard |  |  |  | over child; alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guard=Theme over she=Location |
| 2 | **go** | present · perfect | I *not said here* |  |  | my own castle |  | daily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
| 4 | **beat** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the greedy gold seekers |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seeker=Theme |
| 5 | **force** | past | the greedy gold seekers | seekers's way |  | my dwelling |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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