The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 41
Many fell before the magic sword, and the prince laboured on in spite of weakness and fatigue till he was almost worn out.
Who acts: Many, prince · What happens: fall, labour, wear out, spite · To what, where: magic sword, prince, weakness
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, prince), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 sword | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sword | amod |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laboured | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laboured | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laboured | nsubj |
| 11 | laboured | labour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fell | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 spite | case |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 spite | case |
| 14 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laboured | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 weakness | case |
| 16 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spite | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fatigue | cc |
| 18 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spite | conj |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 worn | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 worn | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 worn | aux:pass |
| 22 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 23 worn | advmod |
| 23 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 laboured | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 worn | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Many | the magic sword | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before sword=Location | ||||
| 2 | labour | participle | the prince | on spite of weakness and fatigue | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on spite=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear out | past · passive | prince | almost property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | spite | weakness | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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