English Fairy Tales, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., sentence 7
O quit your sword, and bend your bow.
Who acts: you · What happens: quit, bend · To what, where: sword, bow
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 quit | discourse |
| 2 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quit | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bend | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bend | cc |
| 7 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 quit | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bend | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quit | imperative | you not said here | your sword | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Source | ||||
| 2 | bend | infinitive | you not said here | your bow | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material |
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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