Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 28
So they went out bravely to battle; and they beat the Danes, and drove them back into their own place.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: go out, battle, beat, drive back · To what, where: Danes, soldiers, own place
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 battle | mark |
| 7 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 beat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beat | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beat | nsubj |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Danes | det |
| 13 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 beat | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drove | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drove | cc |
| 16 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drove | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 drove | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 place | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drove | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | soldiers = soldier | bravely, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | battle | to-infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beat | present | soldiers = soldier | the Danes | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dane=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drive back | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | soldiers = soldier | soldiers's own place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into place=Trajectory |
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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