The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 40

Niels went in here and looked round him: on the wall there hung a huge sword without a sheath, and beneath it was a large drinking-horn, mounted with silver.

Who acts: Niels, sword · What happens: go, look, hang, be, mount · To what, where: huge sword, wall, large drinking horn

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, 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	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 here	case
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 went	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
7	round	round	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 hung	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 wall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wall	det
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 hung	advmod
14	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sword	det
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sword	amod
17	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obj
18	without	without	ADP	_	20 sheath	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sheath	det
20	sheath	sheath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mounted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mounted	cc
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	30 horn	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 horn	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 horn	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 horn	det
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 horn	amod
28	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 horn	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 drinking	punct
30	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mounted	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 horn	punct
32	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hung	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 silver	case
34	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mounted	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Niels				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in here=Location
2	look	past	Niels not said here			round Niels	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme
3	hang	past		a huge sword	the wall; there	without a sheath	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme on wall=Destination
4	is a	past	sword	a large drinking horn			tree rules
5	mount	participle				with silver	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with silver=Instrument

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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