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The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 77

And the fairies gave him these, and a wallet, and a shield, and belted the sword, which had a diamond blade, round his waist, and the cap they set on his head, and told him that now even they could not see him though they were fairies.

Who acts: fairies, sword, cap · What happens: give, belt, have, round, set, tell · To what, where: these, boy, sword, diamond blade, waist, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fairies, sword, cap), 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

ccdetnsubjiobjobjpunctccdetoblpunctccdetconjpunctccparataxisdetobjpunctnsubjacl:relcldetcompoundobjpunctconjnmod:possobjpunctccdetnsubjnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjiobjmarkadvmodadvmodnsubjauxadvmodccompobjmarknsubjcopadvclpunctrootAndCCONJtheDETfairiesNOUNgaveVERBhimPRONthesePRON,PUNCTandCCONJaDETwalletNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaDETshieldNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbeltedVERBtheDETswordNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONhadVERBaDETdiamondNOUNbladeNOUN,PUNCTroundVERBhisPRONwaistNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETcapNOUNtheyPRONsetVERBonADPhisPRONheadNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoldVERBhimPRONthatSCONJnowADVevenADVtheyPRONcouldAUXnotPARTseeVERBhimPRONthoughSCONJtheyPRONwereAUXfairiesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_4 gavecc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 fairiesdet
3fairiesfairyNOUNNumber=Plur4 gavensubj
4gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 gaveiobj
6thesethisPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem4 gaveobj
7,,PUNCT_10 walletpunct
8andandCCONJ_10 walletcc
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 walletdet
10walletwalletNOUNNumber=Sing4 gaveobl
11,,PUNCT_14 shieldpunct
12andandCCONJ_14 shieldcc
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 shielddet
14shieldshieldNOUNNumber=Sing10 walletconj
15,,PUNCT_17 beltedpunct
16andandCCONJ_17 beltedcc
17beltedbeltVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 gaveparataxis
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 sworddet
19swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing17 beltedobj
20,,PUNCT_22 hadpunct
21whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel22 hadnsubj
22hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 swordacl:relcl
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 bladedet
24diamonddiamondNOUNNumber=Sing25 bladecompound
25bladebladeNOUNNumber=Sing22 hadobj
26,,PUNCT_27 roundpunct
27roundroundVERBVerbForm=Inf22 hadconj
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 waistnmod:poss
29waistwaistNOUNNumber=Sing27 roundobj
30,,PUNCT_35 setpunct
31andandCCONJ_35 setcc
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 capdet
33capcapNOUNNumber=Sing35 setnsubj
34theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs35 setnsubj
35setsetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 beltedconj
36ononADP_38 headcase
37hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 headnmod:poss
38headheadNOUNNumber=Sing35 setobl
39,,PUNCT_41 toldpunct
40andandCCONJ_41 toldcc
41toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 gaveconj
42himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 toldiobj
43thatthatSCONJ_44 nowmark
44nownowADVPronType=Dem41 toldadvmod
45evenevenADV_49 seeadvmod
46theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs49 seensubj
47couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin49 seeaux
48notnotPARTPolarity=Neg49 seeadvmod
49seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf41 toldccomp
50himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs49 seeobj
51thoughthoughSCONJ_54 fairiesmark
52theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs54 fairiesnsubj
53werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin54 fairiescop
54fairiesfairyNOUNNumber=Plur49 seeadvcl
55..PUNCT_4 gavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepastthe fairiestheseboya wallet and a shield oblvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient this=Theme
2beltpastthe swordvn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
3havepastthe sworda diamond bladevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Patient
4roundinfinitivethe sword not said hereboy's waistvn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent waist=Patient
5setpastthe capboy's headvn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on head=Destination
6tell speech: assertpastthe fairies not said hereboynowvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7not seecouldFairies = fairyboyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
8is apastFairies = fairyfairiestree 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 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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