The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 93

And he took the scabbard in one hand and the sword in the other, and came and stood behind the giant, as if he would have sheathed the sword in the scabbard.

Who acts: Kai · What happens: take, come, stand behind, sheath · To what, where: scabbard, one hand, sword

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 (Kai), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scabbard	det
5	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hand	nummod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sword	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sword	det
11	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 other	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 giant	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 giant	det
22	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stood	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sheathed	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 sheathed	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 sheathed	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sheathed	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 sheathed	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 sheathed	aux
29	sheathed	sheath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 came	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sword	det
31	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sheathed	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 scabbard	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 scabbard	det
34	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sheathed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Kai	the scabbard	one hand and the sword	in the other	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scabbard=Value in hand=Location
2	come	past	Kai not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand behind	past	Kai not said here			giant property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sheath a condition, not said to happen	would · perfect	Kai	the sword	the scabbard		tree rules

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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