The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 4

Seeing what they took to be a young man seeking adventures, one of the combatants called out, ‘Fet-Fruners! deliver me from my enemy, and I will give you the horn that can be heard the distance of a three days’ journey;’ while the other cried, ‘Fet-Fruners! help me to conquer this pagan thief, and you shall have my horse, Sunlight.’

Who acts: you, mountains, young man, I, other, Fet · What happens: see, take, be, seek, call out, deliver · To what, where: young man, adventures, combatants, me, enemy, horn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (you, mountains, young man, I), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 deliver	advcl
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 took	obj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Seeing	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	9 man	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 man	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
10	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 man	acl
11	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seeking	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 adventures	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 combatants	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 combatants	det
16	combatants	combatant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 combatants	acl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 called	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Fet	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Fet	punct
21	Fet	Fet	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 man	parataxis
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Fruners	punct
23	Fruners	Fruners	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Fet	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
25	deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 deliver	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 enemy	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 enemy	nmod:poss
29	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 deliver	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 give	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 give	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 deliver	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 horn	det
37	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 heard	nsubj:pass
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 heard	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 heard	aux:pass
41	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 horn	acl:relcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 distance	det
43	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 heard	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	49 journey	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 days	det
46	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 days	nummod
47	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 journey	nmod:poss
48	’	's	PART	_	47 days	case
49	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 distance	nmod
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 deliver	punct
52	while	while	SCONJ	_	55 cried	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 other	det
54	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 cried	nsubj
55	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 help	advcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 cried	punct
57	‘	'	PUNCT	_	58 Fet	punct
58	Fet	Fet	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 help	nsubj
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 Fruners	punct
60	Fruners	Fruners	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Fet	conj
61	!	!	PUNCT	_	58 Fet	punct
62	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 deliver	conj
63	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 help	obj
64	to	to	PART	_	65 conquer	mark
65	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 help	xcomp
66	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	68 thief	det
67	pagan	pagan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 thief	amod
68	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 conquer	obj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 have	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 have	cc
71	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	73 have	nsubj
72	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	73 have	aux
73	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 deliver	conj
74	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 horse	nmod:poss
75	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 have	obj
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 Sunlight	punct
77	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 horse	conj
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 deliver	punct
79	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 deliver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	gerund	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	take	past	mountains = mountain				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		a young man			tree rules
4	seek	gerund	a young man not said here	adventures			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme
5	call out speech: assert	participle		the combatants not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	deliver	imperative	you not said here	me		my enemy	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from enemy=Initial_Location
7	give	future	I	the horn	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient horn=Theme
8	hear	can · passive		the horn			tree rules
9	cry speech: express	past	the other				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	help	infinitive	Fet and Fruners	me			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
11	conquer	to-infinitive	me not said here	this pagan thief			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Patient
12	have	shall	you	my horse and Sunlight			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
13	journey		a three days				nom journey «act 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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