The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 32

But in spite of that, he was almost too late, and every fight had been fought save the last, which was between a snake and a great black raven.

Who acts: news · What happens: be, fight, spite · To what, where: spite, fight, that

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 (news), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 late	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 spite	case
3	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 late	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 spite	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spite	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 late	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 late	cop
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 too	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 late	advmod
11	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fought	cc
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 fight	det
15	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fought	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fought	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 fought	aux:pass
18	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 late	conj
19	save	save	ADP	_	21 last	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 last	det
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fought	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 snake	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 snake	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 snake	cop
25	between	between	ADP	_	27 snake	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 snake	det
27	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fought	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 raven	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 raven	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 raven	amod
31	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 raven	amod
32	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snake	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	news		spite of that	late property	tree rules
2	fight	past · perfect · passive		every fight		save the last	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
3	is	past				between a snake and a great black raven	tree rules
4	spite			that			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 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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