English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 39

“O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three; For though I am a poisonous worm, No harm I'll do to thee.”

Who acts: you, stepmother · What happens: quit, unbend, give, kiss, be, do · To what, where: sword, bow, three, harm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, stepmother), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 quit	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	4 quit	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 O	punct
4	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sword	nmod:poss
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 unbend	punct
8	unbend	unbend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 quit	conj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bow	nmod:poss
10	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unbend	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 quit	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 kisses	nsubj
15	kisses	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 give	ccomp
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 kisses	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 worm	punct
18	For	for	ADP	_	24 worm	case
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 worm	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 worm	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 worm	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 worm	det
23	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 worm	amod
24	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quit	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 harm	punct
26	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 harm	det
27	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 worm	appos
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 do	nsubj
29	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 harm	acl:relcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 thee	case
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 do	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quit	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 quit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	quit in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your sword		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Source
2	unbend in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your bow		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bow=Patient
3	give in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	kiss in a quote	present	stepmother	three		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Co-Agent
5	is in a quote	present	stepmother		for a poisonous worm	tree rules
6	do in a quote	future	stepmother	no harm not said here	to thee	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=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: «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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