The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 112

But strike the water with the halter and say, “Come here, O mare of the mountain witch!” and she will come.’

Who acts: you, mare · What happens: strike, say, come · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mare), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 strike	cc
2	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strike	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 halter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 halter	det
7	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strike	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 strike	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct
12	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	ccomp
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mare	punct
15	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	16 mare	case
16	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Come	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 witch	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 witch	det
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 witch	compound
20	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mare	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 mare	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 strike	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 strike	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 strike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	imperative	you not said here	the water		with the halter	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient with halter=Instrument
2	say speech: express	infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	infinitive			here	of mare of the mountain witch	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of mare=Initial_Location
4	come	future	mare				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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