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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 95

Secondly, there is the Scorpion of Solomon (on whom be peace), which is a sword such as no king has; steel and stone are one to it; if you bring it down on a rock it will not be injured, and it will cleave whatever you strike.

Who acts: Scorpion, peace, king, one, you, rock · What happens: be, have, bring down, not injure, cleave, strike · To what, where: peace, Solomon, sword, steel, Scorpion, rock

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scorpion, peace, king, one), 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

advmodpunctexpldetnsubjcasenmodpunctcaseoblcopappospunctpunctnsubjcopdetconjmarkfixeddetnsubjadvclpunctobjccconjparataxisnsubjcasenmodpunctmarknsubjparataxisobjcompound:prtcasedetoblnsubj:passauxadvmodaux:passacl:relclpunctccnsubjauxconjobjnsubjccomppunctrootSecondlyADV,PUNCTtherePRONisVERBtheDETScorpionNOUNofADPSolomonPROPN(PUNCTonADPwhomPRONbeAUXpeaceNOUN)PUNCT,PUNCTwhichPRONisAUXaDETswordNOUNsuchADJasADPnoDETkingNOUNhasVERB;PUNCTsteelNOUNandCCONJstoneNOUNareVERBoneNUMtoADPitPRON;PUNCTifSCONJyouPRONbringVERBitPRONdownADPonADPaDETrockNOUNitPRONwillAUXnotPARTbeAUXinjuredVERB,PUNCTandCCONJitPRONwillAUXcleaveVERBwhateverPRONyouPRONstrikeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SecondlysecondlyADV_4 isadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Secondlypunct
3theretherePRONPronType=Dem4 isexpl
4isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Scorpiondet
6ScorpionscorpionNOUNNumber=Sing4 isnsubj
7ofofADP_8 Solomoncase
8SolomonSolomonPROPNNumber=Sing6 Scorpionnmod
9((PUNCT_13 peacepunct
10ononADP_11 whomcase
11whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel13 peaceobl
12bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf13 peacecop
13peacepeaceNOUNNumber=Sing8 Solomonappos
14))PUNCT_13 peacepunct
15,,PUNCT_19 swordpunct
16whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel19 swordnsubj
17isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 swordcop
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 sworddet
19swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing13 peaceconj
20suchsuchADJDegree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ24 hasmark
21asasADP_20 suchfixed
22nonoDETPronType=Neg23 kingdet
23kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing24 hasnsubj
24hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 swordadvcl
25;;PUNCT_26 steelpunct
26steelsteelNOUNNumber=Sing24 hasobj
27andandCCONJ_28 stonecc
28stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing26 steelconj
29arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 steelparataxis
30oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card29 arensubj
31totoADP_32 itcase
32ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 onenmod
33;;PUNCT_36 bringpunct
34ififSCONJ_36 bringmark
35youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs36 bringnsubj
36bringbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 isparataxis
37ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 bringobj
38downdownADP_36 bringcompound:prt
39ononADP_41 rockcase
40aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art41 rockdet
41rockrockNOUNNumber=Sing36 bringobl
42ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 injurednsubj:pass
43willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin46 injuredaux
44notnotPARTPolarity=Neg46 injuredadvmod
45bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf46 injuredaux:pass
46injuredinjureVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass41 rockacl:relcl
47,,PUNCT_51 cleavepunct
48andandCCONJ_51 cleavecc
49ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs51 cleavensubj
50willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin51 cleaveaux
51cleavecleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf36 bringconj
52whateverwhateverPRONPronType=Rel54 strikeobj
53youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs54 strikensubj
54strikestrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin51 cleaveccomp
55..PUNCT_4 ispunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresentthe Scorpion of Solomontheresecondly propertyvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2is ainfinitivepeace and a swordSolomontree rules
3is apresentpeace and a sworda swordtree rules
4havepresentno kingsteel and stonevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steel=Patient
5bepresentone to Scorpionvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6bring down a condition, not said to happenpresentyouScorpiona rockvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on rock=Destination
7not injurefuture · passivea rock not said hereScorpiontree rules
8cleavefutureScorpiontree rules
9strikepresentyouwhatevervn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=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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