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title: Round his neck there lay a heavy golden chain, and the little old be… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Round his neck there lay a heavy golden chain, and the little old bent sickle, which he cut grass with, and which hung in his waistband, had turned into a gorgeous scimetar, whose ivory hilt gleamed in the pale light like snow in moonlight. Who acts: Wali. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by And
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 11

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Round his neck there lay a heavy golden chain, and the little old bent sickle, which he cut grass with, and which hung in his waistband, had turned into a gorgeous scimetar, whose ivory hilt gleamed in the pale light like snow in moonlight.

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**Who acts:** Wali · **What happens:** lie, cut, hang, turn, gleam · **To what, where:** heavy golden chain, little old bent sickle, waistband, gorgeous scimetar, ivory hilt, pale light

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali), 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:pg3282:35:11
# text = Round his neck there lay a heavy golden chain, and the little old bent sickle, which he cut grass with, and which hung in his waistband, had turned into a gorgeous scimetar, whose ivory hilt gleamed in the pale light like snow in moonlight.
1	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sickle	sickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
21	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	waistband	waistband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	scimetar	scimetar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
41	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	like	like	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | a heavy golden chain |  | there |  | round Wali's neck | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chain=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | past | Wali | the little old bent sickle |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset which=Beneficiary grass=Product |
| 3 | **hang** | past |  |  |  | Wali's waistband |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in waistband=Location |
| 4 | **turn** | past · perfect |  |  |  | a gorgeous scimetar |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into scimetar=Trajectory |
| 5 | **gleam** | participle |  | a gorgeous scimetar's ivory hilt *not said here* |  | the pale light like snow |  | in moonlight | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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