The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 35
The old man did not understand what good the sword would do, however he took it down, and the young man went his way.
Who acts: old man, sword, young man · What happens: not understand, do, take down, go · To what, where: best, way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, sword, young 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 understand | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 understand | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 understand | advmod |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 understand | obj |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 what | amod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | however | however | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 understand | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | past · do-support | the old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | would | the sword | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take down | past | sword | best = good | however property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | past | the young man | sword's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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