English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 32

She ordered her men-at-arms to resist Childe Wynd if he should land near them, and by her spells she caused the Laidly Worm to wait by the entrance of the harbour.

Who acts: keel, Childe · What happens: order, resist, land, cause, wait, spell · To what, where: men, arms, Childe, Laidly Worm

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 (keel, Childe), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 men	nmod:poss
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ordered	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 men	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 at	punct
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ordered	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 resist	mark
10	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	advcl
11	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 resist	obj
12	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Childe	flat
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 land	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 land	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 land	aux
16	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 resist	advcl
17	near	near	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 land	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 caused	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 caused	cc
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 spells	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 spells	nmod:poss
23	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 caused	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 caused	nsubj
25	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ordered	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Worm	det
27	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Worm	compound
28	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caused	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 wait	mark
30	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 caused	ccomp
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 entrance	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 entrance	det
33	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wait	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 harbour	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 harbour	det
36	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 entrance	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	order	past	keel		keel's men	arms		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent man=Theme at arm=Asset
2	resist	to-infinitive	keel not said here	Childe				tree rules
3	land a condition, not said to happen	should	Childe				near imps = imp	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	cause	past	keel	the Laidly Worm			by keel's spells	tree rules
5	wait	to-infinitive	keel not said here				by the entrance of the harbour	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by entrance=Location
6	spell		keel					nom spell «state 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: «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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