The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 127
Four millstones formed his shield, and on a box-tree close by hung his giant sword.
Who acts: Four millstones · What happens: form, hang · To what, where: shield, giant sword
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Four millstones), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 millstones | nummod |
| 2 | millstones | millstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shield | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 formed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 close | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 close | cc |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 box | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 close | obl |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 formed | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 hung | mark |
| 15 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 close | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sword | nmod:poss |
| 17 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sword | amod |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hung | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | Four millstones | tee's shield | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shield=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | Four millstones not said here | tee's giant sword | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
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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