The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 48
The fight had already begun, and the enemy was getting the best of it, when Paperarello rode up, and in a moment the fortunes of the day had changed.
Who acts: enemy, Paperarello, fortunes · What happens: begin, get, ride up, change · To what, where: fight
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy, Paperarello, fortunes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fight | det |
| 2 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begun | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begun | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 begun | advmod |
| 5 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 getting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 getting | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 enemy | det |
| 9 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 getting | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 getting | aux |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 begun | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 best | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 getting | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 best | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rode | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 rode | advmod |
| 18 | Paperarello | Paperarello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 rode | nsubj |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 getting | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 rode | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 changed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 changed | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 moment | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 changed | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fortunes | det |
| 27 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 changed | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fortunes | nmod |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 changed | aux |
| 32 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 begun | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · perfect · passive | the fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | past · progressive | the enemy | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | ride up | past | Paperarello | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | change | past · perfect | the fortunes of the day | moment | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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