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title: He wore a breastplate and helmet of gold, a mantle of blue satin swu… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He wore a breastplate and helmet of gold, a mantle of blue satin swung from his shoulders, his left hand was thrust into the grips of a purple shield, deeply bossed with silver, and in the other hand he held the wide-grooved, blue hilted sword which had rung so often into fights and combats, and joy
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 34

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He wore a breastplate and helmet of gold, a mantle of blue satin swung from his shoulders, his left hand was thrust into the grips of a purple shield, deeply bossed with silver, and in the other hand he held the wide-grooved, blue hilted sword which had rung so often into fights and combats, and joyous feats and exercises.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** wear, swing, be, boss, hold, groove · **To what, where:** breastplate, grips, blue satin, shoulders, hand thrust, purple shield

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg2892:71:34
# text = He wore a breastplate and helmet of gold, a mantle of blue satin swung from his shoulders, his left hand was thrust into the grips of a purple shield, deeply bossed with silver, and in the other hand he held the wide-grooved, blue hilted sword which had rung so often into fights and combats, and joyous feats and exercises.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	grips	grip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	bossed	boss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
46	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	grooved	groove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	hilted	hilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	amod	_	_
52	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	rung	ring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl:relcl	_	_
56	so	so	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	often	often	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
58	into	into	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	combats	combat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
64	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	feats	feat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	exercises	exercise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | King | a breastplate and helmet of gold and a mantle of blue satin and hand thrust |  | the grips of a purple shield |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breastplate=Theme |
| 2 | **swing** | participle |  | blue satin *not said here* |  | King's shoulders |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from shoulder=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is a** | past | King *not said here* | hand thrust |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **boss** | participle |  | a purple shield *not said here* |  |  |  | with silver; deeply *property* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hold** | past | King | the grooved blue hilted sword |  | the other hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in hand=Location |
| 6 | **groove** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **hilt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **ring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the grooved blue hilted sword |  | fights and combats |  | often *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 9 | **grip** |  |  | a purple shield |  |  |  |  | nom grip «act transitive»: of=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:** «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.

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