The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 32

So watch and keep the wolves away.’

Who acts: you · What happens: watch, keep away · To what, where: 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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 watch	advmod
2	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 keep	cc
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 watch	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolves	det
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watch	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 watch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	keep away	infinitive	you not said here	the wolves				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme

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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