The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 12
By their sides hung golden daggers with hilts of the bones of the whale.
What happens: hang · To what, where: golden daggers
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 sides | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sides | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | obl |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daggers | amod |
| 6 | daggers | dagger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hilts | case |
| 8 | hilts | hilt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bones | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bones | det |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hilts | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 whale | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 whale | det |
| 14 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bones | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | golden daggers | by arrows's sides; with hilts of the bones of the whale | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dagger=Patient with hilt=Instrument |
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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