The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 66
They were very evenly matched, and the battle was a hard one.
Who acts: battle · What happens: match, be · To what, where: Tortoise, hard one
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 matched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 matched | aux:pass |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 evenly | advmod |
| 4 | evenly | evenly | ADV | _ | 5 matched | advmod |
| 5 | matched | match | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 one | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 battle | det |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matched | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 matched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | match | past · passive | Tortoise | evenly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the battle | a hard one | 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 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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