--- title: It is not much to look at, but it is enchanted, and whoever carries… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It is not much to look at, but it is enchanted, and whoever carries it will never be struck by lightning, pierced by a lance, or smitten with a sword, and the arrows will glance off his body.’ Who acts: cloth, whoever, lightning, arrows. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fair --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/) / 29 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 29 It is not much to look at, but it is enchanted, and whoever carries it will never be struck by lightning, pierced by a lance, or smitten with a sword, and the arrows will glance off his body.’ **Who acts:** cloth, whoever, lightning, arrows · **What happens:** not be, look, enchant, carry, not strike, pierce · **To what, where:** cloth, body This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth, whoever, lightning, arrows), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:22:29 # text = It is not much to look at, but it is enchanted, and whoever carries it will never be struck by lightning, pierced by a lance, or smitten with a sword, and the arrows will glance off his body.’ 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 pierced pierce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lance lance NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 smitten smite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 glance glance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 41 off off ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | cloth | | | | | much *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **enchant** | present · passive | | cloth | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **carry** | present | whoever | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **strike** | future · passive | lightning | cloth | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 6 | **pierce** | participle | lightning *not said here* | | | | | by a lance | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **smite** | participle | lightning *not said here* | | | | | with a sword | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sword=Instrument | | 8 | **glance off** | future | the arrows | man's body | | | | | tree rules | 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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/30/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/)