Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 7

There were so many of them, and they were so bold and strong, that for a long time they gained every battle.

Who acts: many, people · What happens: be, gain · To what, where: battle

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 (many, people), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 many	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bold	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bold	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bold	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bold	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 bold	advmod
12	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 strong	cc
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bold	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 bold	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 that	nmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gained	nsubj
22	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	acl:relcl
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 battle	det
24	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gained	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	many of people		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	people			bold property	tree rules
3	be		people not said here				tree rules
4	gain	past	people	every battle			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme

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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