The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 29
It is not much to look at, but it is enchanted, and whoever carries it will never be struck by lightning, pierced by a lance, or smitten with a sword, and the arrows will glance off his body.’
Who acts: cloth, whoever, lightning, arrows · What happens: not be, look, enchant, carry, not strike, pierce · To what, where: cloth, body
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth, whoever, lightning, arrows), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 much | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 much | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 enchanted | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 enchanted | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 12 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 much | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carries | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carries | cc |
| 15 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 carries | nsubj |
| 16 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 enchanted | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 struck | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 struck | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 struck | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 struck | aux:pass |
| 21 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 carries | ccomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 lightning | case |
| 23 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 struck | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pierced | punct |
| 25 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 struck | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 lance | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 lance | det |
| 28 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pierced | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 smitten | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 smitten | cc |
| 31 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 struck | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 sword | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 sword | det |
| 34 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 smitten | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 glance | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 glance | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 arrows | det |
| 38 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 glance | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 glance | aux |
| 40 | glance | glance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | conj |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 glance | compound:prt |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 body | nmod:poss |
| 43 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 glance | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 much | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | cloth | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | enchant | present · passive | cloth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | carry | present | whoever | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not strike | future · passive | lightning | cloth | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | pierce | participle | lightning not said here | by a lance | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | smite | participle | lightning not said here | with a sword | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sword=Instrument | ||||
| 8 | glance off | future | the arrows | man's body | 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 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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