The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 115
But first take that sword which hangs on the wall, and cut off the heads of the sixteen grooms.'
Who acts: you, sword · What happens: take, hang, cut off · To what, where: sword, wall, heads
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 take | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 take | advmod |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hangs | nsubj |
| 7 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sword | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hangs | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cut | cc |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 take | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heads | det |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cut | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 grooms | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grooms | det |
| 19 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 grooms | nummod |
| 20 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heads | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | that sword | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | hang | present | that sword | the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location | ||||
| 3 | cut off | participle | you not said here | the heads of the sixteen grooms | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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