The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 90

It was of curious workmanship, wrought with gold, and on its handle was written: “The man who can buckle on this sword will become stronger than other men.”

Who acts: sword, man · What happens: be, write, buckle, become · To what, where: handle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 workmanship	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 workmanship	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 workmanship	case
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 workmanship	amod
5	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrought	punct
7	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 workmanship	amod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 written	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 written	cc
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 handle	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 handle	nmod:poss
14	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 written	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 written	aux:pass
16	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wrought	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 become	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 buckle	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 buckle	aux
23	buckle	buckle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 man	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 sword	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 sword	det
26	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 buckle	obl
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
28	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 workmanship	parataxis
29	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 become	xcomp
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 men	case
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 men	amod
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stronger	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 workmanship	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sword		of curious workmanship	tree rules
2	write	past · passive	sword not said here	sword's handle		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on handle=Destination
3	buckle in a quote	can	the man		on this sword	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on sword=Co-Patient
4	become in a quote	future	the man		strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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