The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 139

You must also be armed with a spear two fathoms long, which you will be able to wield by means of the magic ring upon your left thumb.

Who acts: spear, armed · What happens: be, wield, mean

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spear, armed), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 armed	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 armed	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 armed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 armed	aux:pass
5	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 means	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 spear	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spear	det
8	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 armed	obl
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fathoms	nummod
10	fathoms	fathom	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 long	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spear	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 able	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 able	nsubj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 able	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spear	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wield	mark
19	wield	wield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	by	by	ADP	_	19 wield	obl
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 ring	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ring	det
24	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ring	amod
25	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 means	obl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 thumb	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 thumb	nmod:poss
28	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thumb	amod
29	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ring	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	future	a spear	able property	tree rules
2	wield	to-infinitive	a spear not said here		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	armed	of the magic ring upon your left thumb	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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