Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 33

But it was not many days until he had gath-ered his men to-geth-er again, and had beaten the Danes in a great battle.

Who acts: supper, king, many days · What happens: be, have, er, beat · To what, where: many days, gath, men, Danes

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper, king, many days), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 days	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 days	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 days	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ered	nsubj
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 days	advcl
10	gath	gath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 gath	punct
12	ered	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 men	nmod:poss
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ered	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 er	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	geth	geth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 er	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 geth	punct
19	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ered	obl
20	again	again	ADV	_	12 ered	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beaten	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beaten	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beaten	aux
24	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 ered	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Danes	det
26	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 beaten	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 battle	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 battle	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 battle	amod
30	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beaten	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	supper	many days			tree rules
2	have	past	king	gath			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gath=Patient
3	er	past	many days	king's men	again	to geth er	tree rules
4	beat	past · perfect		the Danes		in a great battle	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent dane=Patient in battle=Topic

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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