The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 38

So vast was the castle that the king’s three thousand men were of no more account than if they had been twenty.

Who acts: vast, thousand men, youths · What happens: be · To what, where: castle

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 (vast, thousand men, youths), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 castle	advmod
2	vast	vast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 castle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 castle	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 account	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 men	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	compound
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 men	nummod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 account	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 account	cop
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 account	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 account	det
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 account	amod
17	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 castle	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	23 twenty	case
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 twenty	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 twenty	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 twenty	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 twenty	cop
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 account	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 castle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	vast	the castle and no more account		tree rules
2	is	past	the king's thousand men		of no more account	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	youths = youth		than twenty	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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