The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 47
Then the ten thousand mighty lions joined the fray and tore in pieces man and horse.
Who acts: thousand mighty lions · What happens: join · To what, where: fray
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 (thousand mighty lions), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 joined | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lions | det |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thousand | compound |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 lions | nummod |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lions | amod |
| 6 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 joined | nsubj |
| 7 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fray | det |
| 9 | fray | fray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joined | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tore | cc |
| 11 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fray | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 man | compound |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joined | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 horse | cc |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | the thousand mighty lions | the fray and tore | then | in pieces man and horse | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fray=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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