The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 29

From that day Owen defended the fountain as the earl before him had done, and every knight that came by was overthrown by him, and his ransom divided among his barons.

Who acts: Owen, knight, ransom · What happens: defend, do, come by, overthrow, divide, ransom · To what, where: fountain, Owen, knight

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, knight, ransom), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 defended	obl
4	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 defended	nsubj
5	defended	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fountain	det
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 defended	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 earl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earl	det
10	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 defended	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 done	mark
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 defended	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 overthrown	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 overthrown	cc
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 knight	det
18	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 overthrown	nsubj:pass
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knight	acl:relcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	20 came	obl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 overthrown	aux:pass
23	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 defended	parataxis
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 overthrown	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 divided	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 divided	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ransom	nmod:poss
29	ransom	ransom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 divided	nsubj
30	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 defended	conj
31	among	among	ADP	_	33 barons	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 barons	nmod:poss
33	barons	baron	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 divided	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 defended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	defend	past	Owen	the fountain	day	as the earl	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Beneficiary
2	do	past · perfect · passive		Owen			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	come by	past	every knight				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	overthrow	past · passive	Owen	every knight			tree rules
5	divide	past	Owen's ransom			among Owen's barons	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	ransom		Owen				nom ransom «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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