The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 101

A neighbouring monarch, he explained, who had many more soldiers than he, had declared war against him, and he was at his wits’ end, for he had neither money to buy him off nor soldiers enough to fight him--what was he to do?

Who acts: neighbouring monarch, king, money · What happens: explain, have, declare, be, buy off, fight · To what, where: many more soldiers, war, end, money, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbouring monarch, king, money), 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	3 monarch	det
2	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 monarch	amod
3	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 explained	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 monarch	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 explained	nsubj
6	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 explained	ccomp
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 soldiers	amod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 soldiers	amod
12	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 he	case
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 soldiers	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 declared	punct
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 declared	aux
17	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 had	conj
18	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 declared	xcomp
19	against	against	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 war	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 end	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 end	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 end	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 end	cop
25	at	at	ADP	_	29 end	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wits	nmod:poss
27	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 end	nmod:poss
28	’	's	PART	_	27 wits	case
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 explained	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 had	case
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 explained	conj
34	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	35 money	det
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 buy	mark
37	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 buy	iobj
39	off	off	ADP	_	37 buy	compound:prt
40	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	41 soldiers	cc
41	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 buy	conj
42	enough	enough	ADV	_	41 soldiers	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 fight	mark
44	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 soldiers	acl
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 fight	obj
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	51 do	obj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 do	cop
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 do	nsubj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 do	mark
51	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 soldiers	conj
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	a neighbouring monarch					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past		many more soldiers			than king	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient
3	declare speech: other	past · perfect		war against king				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	king			at king's wits's end		tree rules
5	have	past	king	neither money				tree rules
6	buy off	to-infinitive	neither money not said here		king			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	fight	to-infinitive	neither money not said here	king				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
8	is	past	king				do property	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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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