The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 109
Round the giant’s neck hung the golden bowl suspended from a chain, and in his hand he grasped the diamond lance, which gleamed like fire.
Who acts: Peronnik, diamond lance · What happens: hang, suspend, grasp, gleam · To what, where: golden bowl, chain, diamond lance, hand
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, diamond lance), 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 | _ | 5 neck | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 neck | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 giant | case |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hung | obl |
| 6 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bowl | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bowl | amod |
| 9 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hung | obj |
| 10 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bowl | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 chain | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chain | det |
| 13 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suspended | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grasped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grasped | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grasped | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grasped | nsubj |
| 20 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hung | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lance | det |
| 22 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lance | amod |
| 23 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grasped | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gleamed | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 gleamed | nsubj |
| 26 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lance | acl:relcl |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 fire | case |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gleamed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the golden bowl | round the giant's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient | ||||
| 2 | suspend | participle | the golden bowl not said here | a chain | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from chain=Source | ||||
| 3 | grasp | past | Peronnik | the diamond lance | Peronnik's hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lance=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | gleam | past | the diamond lance | like fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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