English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 42

“O, quit your sword, unbend your bow, And give me kisses three, If I'm not won ere set of sun, Won never shall I be.”

Who acts: you, stepmother · What happens: quit, unbend, give, kiss, not win · To what, where: sword, bow, three, set · 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	_	22 won	punct
18	If	if	SCONJ	_	22 won	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 won	nsubj
20	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 won	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 won	advmod
22	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 quit	parataxis
23	ere	ere	ADV	_	24 set	advmod
24	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 won	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 sun	case
26	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Won	punct
28	Won	Won	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 set	appos
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 be	advmod
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 be	aux
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 be	nsubj
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 won	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quit	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 quit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	not win a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive	stepmother	set of sun	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=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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