The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 92

‘It is thy scabbard that hath rusted thy sword; give it to me that I may take out the wooden sides of it and put in new ones.’

Who acts: work, I · What happens: be, rust, give, take out, put · To what, where: scabbard, work, me, wooden sides

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 scabbard	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scabbard	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scabbard	cop
4	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 scabbard	nmod:poss
5	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rusted	nsubj:pass
7	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rusted	aux:pass
8	rusted	rust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scabbard	acl:relcl
9	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 sword	nmod:poss
10	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rusted	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scabbard	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 give	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 take	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	advcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 take	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sides	det
22	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sides	amod
23	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 take	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sides	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
27	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 take	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 ones	case
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ones	amod
30	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 scabbard	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 scabbard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	work	thy scabbard			tree rules
2	rust	present · passive		thy scabbard			tree rules
3	give	infinitive		work	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient
4	take out	may	I	the wooden sides of work			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme
5	put	participle	I not said here			in new ones	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=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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