Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 24
Another battle was fought, and the King of England was glad to go back into his own country.
Who acts: King · What happens: fight, be, go back · To what, where: battle, own country
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. 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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 battle | det |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fought | aux:pass |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glad | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 England | case |
| 10 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | cop |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fought | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | xcomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 country | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · passive | another battle | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the King of England | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go back | to-infinitive | the King of England not said here | king's own country | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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