The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 18

If they prove shy, and refuse to let you get near them, draw out your knife, and let the sun shine on it so that the whole meadow is lit up by its rays, and the horses will then approach you of their own accord, and will let you lead them away.

Who acts: horses, you, sun, rays, meadow · What happens: prove, refuse, not let, get, draw out, let · To what, where: you, knife, sun, whole meadow, horses

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, you, sun, rays), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 prove	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prove	nsubj
3	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 refuse	advcl
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prove	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 prove	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 refuse	cc
7	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 refuse	xcomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	near	near	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 draw	punct
15	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 refuse	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 draw	compound:prt
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 knife	nmod:poss
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 draw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 refuse	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 let	obj
24	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shine	obl
27	so	so	SCONJ	_	33 lit	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 lit	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 meadow	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 meadow	amod
31	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lit	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 lit	aux:pass
33	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 shine	advcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 lit	compound:prt
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 rays	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 rays	nmod:poss
37	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lit	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 approach	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 approach	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 horses	det
41	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 approach	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 approach	aux
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 approach	advmod
44	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 refuse	conj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 approach	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 accord	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 accord	nmod:poss
48	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 accord	amod
49	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 approach	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 let	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 let	cc
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 let	aux
53	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 refuse	conj
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 let	obj
55	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 let	xcomp
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 lead	obj
57	away	away	ADV	_	55 lead	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 refuse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove a condition, not said to happen	present	horses = horse				shy property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	imperative	you not said here					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not let	to-infinitive	you not said here	you				tree rules
4	get	infinitive	you not said here				near horses = horse	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	draw out	infinitive	you not said here	your knife				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
6	let	infinitive	you not said here	the sun				tree rules
7	shine	infinitive	the sun not said here		sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location
8	lit up	present · passive	meadow's rays	the whole meadow				tree rules
9	approach	future	the horses	you		then	of horses's own accord	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
10	let	future	you not said here	you				tree rules
11	lead away	infinitive	you not said here	horses = horse			away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
12	ray		meadow					nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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