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description: Niels went in here and looked round him: on the wall there hung a huge sword without a sheath, and beneath it was a large drinking-horn, mounted with silver. Who acts: Niels, sword. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 40

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Niels went in here and looked round him: on the wall there hung a huge sword without a sheath, and beneath it was a large drinking-horn, mounted with silver.

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**Who acts:** Niels, sword · **What happens:** go, look, hang, be, mount · **To what, where:** huge sword, wall, large drinking horn

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, 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:pg2435:30:40
# text = Niels went in here and looked round him: on the wall there hung a huge sword without a sheath, and beneath it was a large drinking-horn, mounted with silver.
1	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sheath	sheath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Niels |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in here=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | Niels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round Niels | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | past |  | a huge sword |  | the wall; there |  | without a sheath | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme on wall=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | past | sword | a large drinking horn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with silver | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with silver=Instrument |

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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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