The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 37

In his hand he bore two spears of silver with heads of steel; a war-horn of ivory was slung round his shoulder, and by his side hung a golden sword.

Who acts: youth · What happens: bear, sling, hang · To what, where: two spears, hand, war horn, golden sword

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 hand	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bore	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bore	nsubj
5	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 spears	nummod
7	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bore	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 silver	case
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spears	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 heads	case
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 silver	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 steel	case
13	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heads	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 slung	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 horn	det
16	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 horn	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 war	punct
18	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slung	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 ivory	case
20	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 horn	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 slung	aux:pass
22	slung	sling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bore	conj
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 shoulder	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shoulder	nmod:poss
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slung	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hung	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hung	cc
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 side	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 side	nmod:poss
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hung	obl
31	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bore	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sword	det
33	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sword	amod
34	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hung	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past	youth	two spears of silver with heads of steel	youth's hand		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient
2	sling	past · passive		a war horn of ivory		round youth's shoulder	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hang	past	youth not said here	a golden sword		by youth's side	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme by side=Destination

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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