The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 101

‘Do not heed him,’ said the horses to the weeping woman; ‘put him in front of us, where he will be safe, and give him food, for he is weary.’

Who acts: you, rock · What happens: not heed, say, put, be, give · To what, where: rock, horses, weeping woman, front, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rock), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 heed	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 heed	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 heed	advmod
4	heed	heed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heed	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 heed	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heed	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horses	det
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 woman	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 woman	compound
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 heed	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 put	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 front	case
20	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 front	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 safe	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 safe	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 safe	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 safe	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 safe	cop
28	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 us	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 give	cc
31	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 put	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 weary	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 weary	case
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 weary	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 weary	cop
38	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 give	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heed	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 heed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not heed	imperative · do-support	you not said here	rock				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the horses	the weeping woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Topic to woman=Recipient
3	put	infinitive		rock		front of us		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in front=Destination
4	is	future	rock				safe property	tree rules
5	give	infinitive		food	rock			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
6	is	present	rock				weary property	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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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