The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 13

Thus he made his way to the city of Nantes, which at that moment was besieged by the French.

Who acts: Peronnik, French · What happens: make, besiege · To what, where: way, Nantes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, French), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Nantes	case
10	Nantes	Nantes	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 city	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 besieged	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 besieged	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 moment	det
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 besieged	obl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 besieged	aux:pass
17	besieged	besiege	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Nantes	acl:relcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 French	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 French	det
20	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 besieged	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Peronnik	Peronnik's way				to the city of Nantes; thus property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product
2	besiege	past · passive	the French	Nantes			moment		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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