The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 28

And now the deer can roam the forest, my arrows will never pierce his heart; strange soldiers will set fire to my houses and water their horses at my wells, and my arm cannot hinder them.

Who acts: deer, arrows, strange soldiers, arm · What happens: roam, not pierce, set, not hinder · To what, where: forest, heart, fire, wells, soldiers

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, arrows, strange soldiers, arm), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 roam	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 roam	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deer	det
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roam	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 roam	aux
6	roam	roam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roam	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pierce	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arrows	nmod:poss
11	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pierce	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pierce	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 pierce	advmod
14	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 roam	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heart	nmod:poss
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pierce	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 set	punct
18	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 soldiers	amod
19	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 set	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 set	aux
21	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 roam	conj
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 houses	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 houses	nmod:poss
25	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 set	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 water	cc
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 houses	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 horses	nmod:poss
29	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 houses	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 wells	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wells	nmod:poss
32	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 set	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hinder	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hinder	cc
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 arm	nmod:poss
36	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hinder	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 hinder	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 hinder	advmod
39	hinder	hinder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 set	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hinder	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 roam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roam	can	the deer	the forest		now		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Trajectory
2	not pierce	future	my arrows	deer's heart				vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
3	set	future	strange soldiers	fire	my wells		to my houses and water and soldiers's horses	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme at well=Destination
4	not hinder	can	my arm	soldiers = soldier				vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Eventuality

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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