The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 11

Round his neck there lay a heavy golden chain, and the little old bent sickle, which he cut grass with, and which hung in his waistband, had turned into a gorgeous scimetar, whose ivory hilt gleamed in the pale light like snow in moonlight.

Who acts: Wali · What happens: lie, cut, hang, turn, gleam · To what, where: heavy golden chain, little old bent sickle, waistband, gorgeous scimetar, ivory hilt, pale light

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (Wali), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	3 neck	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 neck	nmod:poss
3	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lay	advmod
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chain	det
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chain	amod
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chain	amod
9	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sickle	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sickle	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sickle	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sickle	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sickle	amod
15	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sickle	amod
16	sickle	sickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 cut	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cut	nsubj
20	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sickle	parataxis
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	20 cut	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hung	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hung	cc
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hung	nsubj
26	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 waistband	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 waistband	nmod:poss
29	waistband	waistband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hung	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turned	punct
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 turned	aux
32	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 hung	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 scimetar	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 scimetar	det
35	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 scimetar	amod
36	scimetar	scimetar	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turned	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hilt	punct
38	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	40 hilt	nmod:poss
39	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hilt	compound
40	hilt	hilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 scimetar	appos
41	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 hilt	acl
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 light	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 light	det
44	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 light	amod
45	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gleamed	obl
46	like	like	ADP	_	47 snow	case
47	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 light	nmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 moonlight	case
49	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gleamed	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a heavy golden chain	there	round Wali's neck	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chain=Theme
2	cut	past	Wali	the little old bent sickle			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset which=Beneficiary grass=Product
3	hang	past			Wali's waistband		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in waistband=Location
4	turn	past · perfect			a gorgeous scimetar		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into scimetar=Trajectory
5	gleam	participle		a gorgeous scimetar's ivory hilt not said here	the pale light like snow	in moonlight	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=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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