--- title: He was equipped in a wonderful solidity of armour, with a hard, carv… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He was equipped in a wonderful solidity of armour, with a hard, carven helmet on his head, a splendid red-bossed shield swinging on his shoulder, a wide-grooved, straight sword clashing along his thigh. Who acts: splendid bossed shield, grooved straight sword. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by Ja --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/) / 17 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 17 He was equipped in a wonderful solidity of armour, with a hard, carven helmet on his head, a splendid red-bossed shield swinging on his shoulder, a wide-grooved, straight sword clashing along his thigh. **Who acts:** splendid bossed shield, grooved straight sword · **What happens:** equip, boss, swing, groove, clash · **To what, where:** gentleman, wonderful solidity, shoulder, thigh This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendid bossed shield, grooved straight sword), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:48:17 # text = He was equipped in a wonderful solidity of armour, with a hard, carven helmet on his head, a splendid red-bossed shield swinging on his shoulder, a wide-grooved, straight sword clashing along his thigh. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 equipped equip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 solidity solidity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 carven carven ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 22 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 23 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 bossed boss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 27 swinging swing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 33 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 grooved groove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 39 clashing clash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 40 along along ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 thigh thigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **equip** | past · passive | | gentleman | | a wonderful solidity of armour | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **boss** | participle | | | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **swing** | gerund | a splendid bossed shield *not said here* | | | gentleman's shoulder | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Trajectory | | 4 | **groove** | participle | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **clash** | gerund | a grooved straight sword *not said here* | | | gentleman's thigh | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along thigh=Location | 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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/18/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/)