The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 79
Some way off he met the Red Knight and the rest, and the Red Knight at first tried to take the sword from him by force.
Who acts: half, Red Knight · What happens: meet, try, take · To what, where: way, sword
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, Red 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 met | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Knight | det |
| 7 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Knight | flat |
| 8 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rest | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rest | det |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Knight | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tried | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Knight | det |
| 15 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Knight | compound |
| 16 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tried | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 first | case |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 tried | obl |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sword | det |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 force | case |
| 27 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | half | some way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the Red Knight | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Red Knight not said here | the sword | from half; by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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