The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 56

He was only just in time: the enemy had almost beaten the king’s army back, and men whispered to each other that if the strange knight did not soon come to their aid, they would be all dead men.

Who acts: king, enemy, men, strange knight, soldiers · What happens: be, beat, whisper, not come · To what, where: army, each, aid, dead men

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 (king, enemy, men, strange knight), 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 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 time	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 time	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 beaten	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 enemy	det
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beaten	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beaten	aux
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 beaten	advmod
12	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 time	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 army	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beaten	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	12 beaten	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whispered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 whispered	cc
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 whispered	nsubj
21	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beaten	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 each	case
23	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	21 whispered	obl
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	fixed
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 come	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 come	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 knight	det
28	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 knight	amod
29	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 come	advmod
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 come	advmod
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 whispered	ccomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 aid	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 aid	nmod:poss
36	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 men	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 men	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 men	cop
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 men	det
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 men	amod
43	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 time	acl:relcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	king				in time		tree rules
2	beat	past · perfect	the enemy	the king's army				almost property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location army=Theme
3	whisper speech: assert	past	men		each				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient how S_INF»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not come a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	the strange knight			soldiers's aid		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location
5	is a	would	soldiers = soldier	all dead men					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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