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title: And now the deer can roam the forest, my arrows will never pierce hi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the deer can roam the forest, my arrows will never pierce his heart; strange soldiers will set fire to my houses and water their horses at my wells, and my arm cannot hinder them. Who acts: deer, arrows, strange soldiers, arm. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Wh
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 28

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And now the deer can roam the forest, my arrows will never pierce his heart; strange soldiers will set fire to my houses and water their horses at my wells, and my arm cannot hinder them.

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**Who acts:** deer, arrows, strange soldiers, arm · **What happens:** roam, not pierce, set, not hinder · **To what, where:** forest, heart, fire, wells, soldiers

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, arrows, strange soldiers, arm), 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:pg641:38:28
# text = And now the deer can roam the forest, my arrows will never pierce his heart; strange soldiers will set fire to my houses and water their horses at my wells, and my arm cannot hinder them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	roam	roam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	wells	well	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	hinder	hinder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | can | the deer | the forest |  |  | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **pierce** | future | my arrows | deer's heart |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | future | strange soldiers | fire |  | my wells |  | to my houses and water and soldiers's horses | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme at well=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **hinder** | can | my arm | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Eventuality |

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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 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.

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