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title: Right and left this strange knight laid about him, and his sword pie… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Right and left this strange knight laid about him, and his sword pierced the stoutest breast-plate, and the strongest shield. Who acts: strange knight, sword. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 49

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Right and left this strange knight laid about him, and his sword pierced the stoutest breast-plate, and the strongest shield.

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**Who acts:** strange knight, sword · **What happens:** leave, lay, pierce · **To what, where:** stoutest breast plate

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange knight, sword), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:13:49
# text = Right and left this strange knight laid about him, and his sword pierced the stoutest breast-plate, and the strongest shield.
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	stoutest	stout	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
17	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | past | this strange knight |  |  |  |  | about Paperarello | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination |
| 3 | **pierce** | past | Paperarello's sword | the stoutest breast plate |  |  |  | the strongest shield *obl* | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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