The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 50

He was indeed “a host in himself,” and his foes fled before him thinking he was only the first of a troop of such warriors, whom no one could withstand.

Who acts: knight, host, one · What happens: be, flee, think, withstand · To what, where: host, first, such warriors · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (knight, host, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 host	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 host	cop
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 host	advmod
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 host	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 host	det
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fled	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 host	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 host	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 host	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 foes	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 foes	nmod:poss
13	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 host	conj
14	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 thinking	mark
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thinking	nsubj
17	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fled	advcl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 first	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 first	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 first	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 first	det
22	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 thinking	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 troop	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 troop	det
25	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 first	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 warriors	case
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 warriors	amod
28	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 troop	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 withstand	punct
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 withstand	obj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 withstand	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 withstand	aux
34	withstand	withstand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 warriors	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	knight	a host and knight's foes	in knight; indeed property	tree rules
2	flee	past	a host and knight's foes			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund	knight			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	knight	the first	of a troop of such warriors	tree rules
5	withstand	could	no one	such warriors		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: «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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