The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 86

Well, all the men put their hands to their swords; and if the same swords were only playthings, they weren’t able to draw them, for all strength that was left their arms.

Who acts: men, same swords, man · What happens: put, be, not be, draw, leave · To what, where: hands, playthings, man, strength

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, same swords, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 men	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 swords	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 swords	nmod:poss
11	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 playthings	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 playthings	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 playthings	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 swords	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 swords	amod
17	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 playthings	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 playthings	cop
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 playthings	advmod
20	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 able	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 able	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 able	cop
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 able	advmod
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 playthings	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 draw	mark
27	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	xcomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 draw	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 strength	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 strength	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 strength	det
32	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 draw	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 left	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 left	aux:pass
35	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 strength	acl:relcl
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 arms	nmod:poss
37	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 left	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	past	all men	man's hands	to man's swords	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the same swords	playthings		tree rules
3	not is	past	man		able property	tree rules
4	draw	to-infinitive	man not said here	man	for all strength	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Result for strength=Beneficiary
5	leave	past · passive		all strength		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme arm=Attribute

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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