English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 22

But if ye would that she be borrowed to her natural shape, and that she who bespelled her be rightly punished, send over the seas for her brother, Childe Wynd.”

Who acts: Worm · What happens: borrow, bespell, punish, send · To what, where: Worm, seas

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worm), 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	_	8 borrowed	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 would	mark
3	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 would	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 borrowed	aux
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 borrowed	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 borrowed	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 borrowed	aux:pass
8	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 shape	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shape	nmod:poss
11	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shape	amod
12	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 borrowed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 send	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 send	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 bespelled	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bespelled	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 bespelled	nsubj
18	bespelled	bespell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 send	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 punished	nmod:poss
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 punished	aux:pass
21	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	22 punished	advmod
22	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bespelled	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bespelled	punct
24	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 borrowed	parataxis
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 seas	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 seas	det
27	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 send	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 brother	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brother	nmod:poss
30	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 send	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Childe	punct
32	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 brother	appos
33	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Childe	flat
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 send	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 borrowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	borrow	would · passive		Worm		to Worm's natural shape	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	bespell	past	Worm				tree rules
3	punish	infinitive · passive	Worm not said here			rightly property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»
4	send	infinitive			the seas	for Worm's brother	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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