The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 20

You must guard the tree for nine days and nine nights from the ravages of two wild black wolves, who will try to harm it.

Who acts: You, two wild black wolves · What happens: guard, try, harm, ravage · To what, where: tree, task, two wild black wolves

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, two wild black wolves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 guard	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 guard	aux
3	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guard	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guard	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nights	cc
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 nights	nummod
11	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 days	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 ravages	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ravages	det
14	ravages	ravage	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nights	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 wolves	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 wolves	nummod
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wolves	amod
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wolves	amod
19	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ravages	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 try	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 try	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 try	aux
23	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wolves	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 harm	mark
25	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 try	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 harm	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 guard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	guard	must	You	the tree	day	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary
2	try	future	two wild black wolves			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	harm not said to happen	to-infinitive	two wild black wolves not said here	task		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
4	ravage			two wild black wolves		nom ravage «event transitive»: of=patient

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.

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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