The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 35
A war with another country broke out, and the king had to lead his army against their enemy.
Who acts: war, king · What happens: break out, have, lead · To what, where: army, enemy
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 war | det |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 war | nmod |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 broke | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lead | mark |
| 14 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 army | nmod:poss |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lead | obj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 enemy | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 19 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lead | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | a war with another country | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lead | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king's army | trees's enemy | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme against enemy=Destination |
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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