The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 32

They were taller than mortal men, and the young man had a staff in his hand with golden wings on it, and two golden serpents twisted round it, and he had wings on his cap and on his shoes.

Who acts: lady, young man, man · What happens: be, have, twist · To what, where: staff, hand, two golden serpents, wings, cap

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, young man, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taller	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taller	cop
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 men	case
5	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taller	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taller	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 staff	det
14	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 wings	case
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wings	amod
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wings	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 serpents	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 serpents	cc
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 serpents	nummod
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 serpents	amod
27	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taller	obl
28	twisted	twist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 serpents	acl
29	round	round	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 twisted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 serpents	conj
35	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 had	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 cap	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 cap	nmod:poss
38	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 shoes	cc
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 shoes	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 shoes	nmod:poss
42	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cap	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taller	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	lady			than mortal men; two golden serpents obl; tall property	tree rules
2	have	past	the young man	a staff	man's hand	with golden wings on hand	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient
3	twist	participle		two golden serpents not said here	hand		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory
4	have	past	man	wings	man's cap and man's shoes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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