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title: It was of curious workmanship, wrought with gold, and on its handle… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was of curious workmanship, wrought with gold, and on its handle was written: “The man who can buckle on this sword will become stronger than other men.” Who acts: sword, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 90

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It was of curious workmanship, wrought with gold, and on its handle was written: “The man who can buckle on this sword will become stronger than other men.”

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**Who acts:** sword, man · **What happens:** be, write, buckle, become · **To what, where:** handle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, man), 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:pg2435:14:90
# text = It was of curious workmanship, wrought with gold, and on its handle was written: “The man who can buckle on this sword will become stronger than other men.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	buckle	buckle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
29	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	xcomp	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sword |  |  |  |  | of curious workmanship | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive | sword *not said here* |  |  | sword's handle |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on handle=Destination |
| 3 | **buckle** *in a quote* | can | the man |  |  |  |  | on this sword | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on sword=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | future | the man |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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