The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 59
As before, the enemy gave way before him, and in a few minutes the victory remained with the king.
Who acts: enemy, victory · What happens: give, remain · To what, where: way
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, victory), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 before | case |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 gave | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 before | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 enemy | det |
| 5 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remained | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 minutes | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minutes | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 minutes | amod |
| 15 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 remained | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 victory | det |
| 17 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | nsubj |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gave | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the enemy | way | before knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain | participle | the victory | minute | with the king | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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