The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 127
So he girded it to his side, and put on the old helmet.
Who acts: Manus · What happens: gird, put · To what, where: thrice, old helmet
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manus), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 girded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 girded | nsubj |
| 3 | girded | gird | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 girded | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 side | nmod:poss |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 girded | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 helmet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 helmet | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 helmet | amod |
| 14 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 girded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gird | past | Manus | thrice | to Manus's side | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | participle | Manus not said here | the old helmet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on helmet=Destination |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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