The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 43
And Kai met him and fought him, and was overthrown by him.
Who acts: Kai · What happens: meet, fight, overthrow · To what, where: man
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 (Kai), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 met | cc |
| 2 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fought | cc |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 overthrown | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 overthrown | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 overthrown | aux:pass |
| 11 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 met | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 overthrown | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Kai | man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | Kai not said here | man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | overthrow | past · passive | Kai | 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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