The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 96

Thirdly, there is the dagger which the sage Timus himself made; this is most useful, and the man who wears it would not bend under seven camels’ loads.

Who acts: dagger, sage, this, man · What happens: be, make, wear, not bend · To what, where: dagger, loads

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 (dagger, sage, this, man), 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	Thirdly	thirdly	ADV	_	4 is	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thirdly	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dagger	det
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 made	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sage	det
9	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj
10	Timus	Timus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sage	appos
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	10 Timus	nmod:unmarked
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dagger	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 useful	punct
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 useful	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 useful	cop
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 useful	advmod
17	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 is	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bend	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bend	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bend	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 wears	nsubj
23	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 man	acl:relcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wears	obj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 bend	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 bend	advmod
27	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 useful	conj
28	under	under	ADP	_	32 loads	case
29	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 camels	nummod
30	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 loads	nmod:poss
31	’	's	PART	_	30 camels	case
32	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bend	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	the dagger		there	thirdly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	the sage	the dagger			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product
3	is	present	this			useful property	tree rules
4	wear	present	the man	dagger			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	not bend	would	the man		seven camels's loads		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under load=Location

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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