The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 26

The enemy were in battle array, advancing over the plain, their king with them confident and cheerful, when suddenly from the front came a desperate rider at a furious gallop.

Who acts: enemy, front · What happens: be, advance, come · To what, where: battle array, plain, desperate rider, furious gallop

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy, front), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 enemy	det
2	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 array	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 array	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 array	case
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 array	compound
6	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 advancing	punct
8	advancing	advance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 array	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plain	det
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 advancing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 king	punct
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 king	nmod:poss
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plain	appos
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 king	nmod
17	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 advancing	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cheerful	cc
19	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 confident	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
22	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	25 front	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 front	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 front	det
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 array	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rider	det
28	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rider	amod
29	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 gallop	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 gallop	det
32	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 gallop	amod
33	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 array	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the enemy		battle array		tree rules
2	advance	gerund	the enemy not said here		the plain	confident property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over plain=Initial_Location
3	come	past	the front	a desperate rider	a furious gallop		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rider=Theme

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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