The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 146

How one king was marching in battle against another, and which was likely to be the victor.

Who acts: one king · What happens: march, be · To what, where: battle, victor

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one king), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 marching	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 king	nummod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marching	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 marching	aux
5	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 battle	case
7	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marching	obl
8	against	against	ADP	_	9 another	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 battle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 likely	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 likely	cc
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 likely	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 likely	cop
14	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 marching	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	18 victor	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 victor	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 victor	det
18	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 likely	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 marching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	march	past · progressive	one king		battle against another		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in battle=Trajectory
2	is	past				likely property	tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive		the victor			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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