The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 58
Then they took fresh heart and fought desperately on till the knight came up, and threw himself into the thick of the battle.
Who acts: soldiers, knight · What happens: take, fight, come up, throw · To what, where: fresh heart, knight, thick
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 (soldiers, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | amod |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fought | cc |
| 7 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | desperately | desperately | ADV | _ | 7 fought | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fought | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 threw | cc |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 threw | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 thick | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thick | det |
| 21 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 threw | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 battle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 battle | det |
| 24 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thick | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | soldiers = soldier | fresh heart | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 2 | fight | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | desperately property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come up | past | the knight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | throw | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | knight | into the thick result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into thick=Result |
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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