The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 25

Shouts went up from the lookers-on, as first one and then the other seemed gaining the victory; but at length Rosald planted his spear in the armour which covered his adversary’s breast and bore him steadily backward.

Who acts: Shouts, first one, armour · What happens: go up, seem, gain, plant, cover, bear · To what, where: lookers, victory, spear, length, breast, Rosald

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (Shouts, first one, armour), 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	Shouts	shout	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 lookers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lookers	det
6	lookers	looker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 on	punct
8	on	on	ADV	_	6 lookers	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 seemed	mark
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seemed	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 other	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 other	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	conj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
18	gaining	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 seemed	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 victory	det
20	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gaining	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 planted	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 planted	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 length	case
24	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 planted	obl
25	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 length	appos
26	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 spear	nmod:poss
28	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 planted	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 armour	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 armour	det
31	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 planted	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 covered	nsubj
33	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 armour	acl:relcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 adversary	nmod:poss
35	adversary	adversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 breast	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 adversary	case
37	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 covered	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bore	cc
39	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 planted	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bore	obj
41	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	42 backward	advmod
42	backward	backward	ADV	_	39 bore	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Shouts		the lookers		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	seem	past	first one				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	gain	gerund	first one not said here	the victory			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme
4	plant	past		Rosald's spear	length	in the armour	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at length=Destination
5	cover	past	the armour	Rosald's adversary's breast			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme breast=Destination
6	bear	past		Rosald		backward property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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