--- title: Let me hit them with my rod, and then I shall not be afraid of them.’ — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Let me hit them with my rod, and then I shall not be afraid of them.’ Who acts: you, me, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/99/) [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 Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 99 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 99 Let me hit them with my rod, and then I shall not be afraid of them.’ **Who acts:** you, me, I · **What happens:** let, hit, not be · **To what, where:** me, beasts This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, I), 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:pg641:5:99 # text = Let me hit them with my rod, and then I shall not be afraid of them.’ 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hit** | infinitive | me *not said here* | beasts *= beast* | | | | with my rod | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with rod=Instrument | | 3 | **not** **is** | shall | I | | | | then | of beasts *= beast*; afraid *property* | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/100/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)