The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 23

When Halvor had eaten his fill, the Princess told him to try if he could wield the sword which was hanging on the wall, but he could not wield it, nor could he even lift it up.

Who acts: Halvor, Princess, sword · What happens: eat, tell, try, wield, hang, not wield · To what, where: fill, Halvor, sword, wall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, Princess, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fill	nmod:poss
6	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 try	mark
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 wield	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wield	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wield	aux
17	wield	wield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 try	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sword	det
19	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wield	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hanging	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hanging	aux
22	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sword	acl:relcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 wall	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wall	det
25	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hanging	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wield	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 wield	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wield	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 wield	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 wield	advmod
31	wield	wield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wield	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lift	punct
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 lift	cc
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 lift	aux
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lift	nsubj
37	even	even	ADV	_	38 lift	advmod
38	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 wield	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lift	obj
40	up	up	ADP	_	38 lift	compound:prt
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	Halvor	Halvor's fill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Princess		Halvor		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wield a condition, not said to happen	could	Halvor	the sword			vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5	hang	past · progressive	the sword			the wall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location
6	not wield	could	Halvor	sword			vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	lift up	could	Halvor	sword			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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