The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 72

He bound the dagger of Timus firmly to his waist and hung the scorpion of Solomon round his neck.

Who acts: horse · What happens: bind, hang · To what, where: dagger, scorpion

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bound	nsubj
2	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dagger	det
4	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bound	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Timus	case
6	Timus	Timus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dagger	nmod
7	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	2 bound	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 waist	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 waist	nmod:poss
10	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bound	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hung	cc
12	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bound	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 scorpion	det
14	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hung	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Solomon	case
16	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 scorpion	nmod
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 neck	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neck	nmod:poss
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hung	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	past	horse	the dagger of Timus				to horse's waist; firmly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent dagger=Patient to waist=Co-Patient
2	hang	past	horse not said here	the scorpion of Solomon				round horse's neck	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=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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