The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 49
Right and left this strange knight laid about him, and his sword pierced the stoutest breast-plate, and the strongest shield.
Who acts: strange knight, sword · What happens: leave, lay, pierce · To what, where: stoutest breast plate
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange knight, sword), 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 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 left | cc |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 knight | det |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knight | amod |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | nsubj |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | ccomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pierced | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pierced | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sword | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pierced | nsubj |
| 14 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plate | det |
| 16 | stoutest | stout | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 plate | amod |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plate | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 breast | punct |
| 19 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pierced | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shield | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shield | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shield | det |
| 23 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 shield | amod |
| 24 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pierced | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | this strange knight | about Paperarello | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pierce | past | Paperarello's sword | the stoutest breast plate | the strongest shield obl | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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