The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 51

He could not brandish the sword; so the Princess said that he was to take a draught from the flask which hung by its side, and when he had done that he could wield the sword.

Who acts: Halvor, Princess, flask · What happens: not brandish, say, be, hang, do, wield · To what, where: sword, flask · 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, flask), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brandish	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 brandish	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 brandish	advmod
4	brandish	brandish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sword	det
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brandish	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brandish	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 take	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 take	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 draught	det
18	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 flask	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flask	det
21	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 hung	nsubj
23	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 flask	acl:relcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 side	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 side	nmod:poss
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hung	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 done	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 done	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 done	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 brandish	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 wield	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wield	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 wield	aux
36	wield	wield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 done	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sword	det
38	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wield	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brandish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not brandish	could	Halvor	the sword			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	Halvor		the flask	take property	tree rules
4	hang	past	the flask			by sword's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
5	do	past · perfect	Halvor				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wield	could	Halvor	the sword			vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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