The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 87
So, fastening the sword to his belt, he carried it to the king.
Who acts: Knight · What happens: fasten, carry · To what, where: sword, king
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight), 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 | _ | 11 carried | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | fastening | fasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 carried | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastening | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 belt | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 belt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastening | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fastening | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | nsubj |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | gerund | Knight not said here | the sword | to Knight's belt | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient to belt=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | carry | past | Knight | sword | the king | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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