The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 148

‘Come, my hero, come and rest; the heat will kill you,’ said they.

Who acts: heat, maidens · What happens: come, rest, kill, say · To what, where: hero, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heat, maidens), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hero	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hero	nmod:poss
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rest	cc
9	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heat	det
12	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kill	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 kill	aux
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 kill	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	infinitive		my hero	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rest	infinitive			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	kill	future	the heat	you	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	maidens = maiden		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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