Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 6

In his hand were two spears of silver, well-tempered, headed with steel, of an edge to wound the wind and cause blood to flow, and swifter than the fall of the dew-drop from the blade of reed grass upon the earth when the dew of June is at its heaviest.

Who acts: hand, blood, dew · What happens: be, temper, head, wound, cause, flow · To what, where: two spears, swifter, wind, blood

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, blood, dew), 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 spears	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spears	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spears	cop
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 spears	nummod
6	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tempered	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 silver	case
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spears	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spears	punct
10	well	well	INTJ	_	12 tempered	discourse
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 well	punct
12	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 headed	punct
14	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tempered	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 steel	case
16	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 headed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 edge	punct
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 edge	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 edge	det
20	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tempered	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wound	mark
22	wound	wound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 edge	acl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wound	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cause	cc
26	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wound	conj
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cause	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 flow	mark
29	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 cause	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 swifter	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 swifter	cc
32	swifter	swifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tempered	obl
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 fall	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fall	det
35	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swifter	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 drop	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 drop	det
38	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drop	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 dew	punct
40	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fall	nmod
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 blade	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 blade	det
43	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drop	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 grass	case
45	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 grass	compound
46	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 blade	nmod
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	49 earth	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 earth	det
49	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 grass	nmod
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	58 heaviest	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 dew	det
52	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 heaviest	nsubj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 June	case
54	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 dew	nmod
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 heaviest	cop
56	at	at	ADP	_	58 heaviest	case
57	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 heaviest	nmod:poss
58	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 drop	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tempered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	briar's hand		two spears	of silver	tree rules
2	temper	participle		swifter than the fall of the dew drop from the blade of reed grass upon the earth			tree rules
3	head	participle				with steel	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wound	to-infinitive		the wind			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wind=Experiencer
5	cause	infinitive		blood			tree rules
6	flow	to-infinitive	blood not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	present	the dew of June			heavy property	tree 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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