More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 133

Then, when the Worm comes to the Rock at dawn of day, try thy prowess on him, and God gi'e thee a good deliverance."

Who acts: Worm, you, God gi'e · What happens: come, try, deliverance · To what, where: Rock, prowess

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worm, you, God gi'e), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 try	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 comes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Worm	det
5	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 try	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Rock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rock	det
9	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 dawn	case
11	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 day	case
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dawn	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 try	punct
15	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 prowess	nmod:poss
17	prowess	prowess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 try	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 try	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deliverance	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 deliverance	cc
22	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 gi'e	compound
23	gi'e	gi'e	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deliverance	nsubj
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 deliverance	nsubj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 deliverance	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 deliverance	amod
27	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 try	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 try	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the Worm		the Rock	dawn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location
2	try	imperative	you not said here	thy prowess		then	on station	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prowess=Eventuality
3	deliverance		God gi'e					tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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