The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 24
Then lay hold of the sword which is hanging by the side of the flask, and smite the Troll dead.’
Who acts: sword · What happens: lie, hang, smite, hold · To what, where: hold, Troll, sword
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | advmod |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sword | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | nmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hanging | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hanging | aux |
| 9 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sword | acl:relcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hanging | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flask | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flask | det |
| 15 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smite | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smite | cc |
| 18 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lay | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Troll | det |
| 20 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smite | obj |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smite | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | hold of the sword | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | present · progressive | the sword | by the side of the flask | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 3 | smite | infinitive | the Troll | dead property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus troll=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hold | the sword | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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