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title: Hermod told her straight and plain that he would not do so, at which… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hermod told her straight and plain that he would not do so, at which the Queen grew terribly angry, and said that in that case neither should he have Hadvor, for she would now lay this spell on him, that he should go to a desert island and there be a lion by day and a man by night. Who acts: Hermod,
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 23

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Hermod told her straight and plain that he would not do so, at which the Queen grew terribly angry, and said that in that case neither should he have Hadvor, for she would now lay this spell on him, that he should go to a desert island and there be a lion by day and a man by night.

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**Who acts:** Hermod, Queen, lion · **What happens:** tell, plain, not do, grow, say, have · **To what, where:** Queen, Hadvor, case, spell, desert island · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hermod, Queen, lion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:49:23
# text = Hermod told her straight and plain that he would not do so, at which the Queen grew terribly angry, and said that in that case neither should he have Hadvor, for she would now lay this spell on him, that he should go to a desert island and there be a lion by day and a man by night.
1	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	plain	plain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
32	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
38	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
39	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	parataxis	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	54	expl	_	_
54	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
57	by	by	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	_
62	by	by	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Hermod |  | Queen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **plain** | present |  |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **do** | would | Hermod |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at which=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **have** | should | Hermod | Hadvor |  | that case |  | neither *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hadvor=Patient |
| 7 | **lay** | would | Queen | this spell |  |  | now | on Hermod | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination |
| 8 | **go** | should | Hermod |  |  | a desert island |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **be** | infinitive | a lion |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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