Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 9
At last, after a great battle, the English army was broken up and scat-tered.
What happens: break up, ter · To what, where: English army
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 battle | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 battle | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 battle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 battle | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 battle | amod |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 broken | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 army | det |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 army | amod |
| 11 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | aux:pass |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 battle | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 broken | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tered | cc |
| 16 | scat | scat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tered | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 scat | punct |
| 18 | tered | ter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 broken | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 battle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break up | past · passive | the English army | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ter | participle | tree rules |
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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