The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 19

And in the morning, when the Sultan brought a great army to capture the lad and deprive him of his sword, they were all cut to pieces, while he remained without a scratch.

Who acts: Sultan, youth · What happens: bring, capture, deprive, cut, remain · To what, where: great army, lad, youth, lads

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, youth), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 brought	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 brought	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sultan	det
8	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 brought	nsubj
9	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 army	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 army	amod
12	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 capture	mark
14	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 brought	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lad	det
16	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 capture	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 deprive	cc
18	deprive	deprive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 capture	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 deprive	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sword	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sword	nmod:poss
22	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deprive	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	aux:pass
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 cut	advmod
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 deprive	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 pieces	case
29	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cut	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remained	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 remained	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 remained	nsubj
33	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	conj
34	without	without	ADP	_	36 scratch	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 scratch	det
36	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 remained	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the Sultan	a great army	morning		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent army=Theme
2	capture	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here	the lad			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme
3	deprive	infinitive	the Sultan not said here	youth		of youth's sword	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Source of sword=Theme
4	cut	past · passive		lads = lad		to pieces result; all property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result
5	remain	past	youth			without a scratch	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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