The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 50

All that day they fought, and neither was able to throw the other, and so it was on the next day.

Who acts: arms, neither, robe · What happens: fight, be, throw · To what, where: other

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 (arms, neither, robe), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fought	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fought	nsubj
5	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 able	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 able	cc
8	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	10 able	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 able	cop
10	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fought	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 throw	mark
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 able	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 throw	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 day	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 day	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	23 day	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 day	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 day	cop
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fought	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	arms = arm		day		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	neither			able property	tree rules
3	throw	to-infinitive	neither not said here	the other			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
4	is	past	robe		on the next day		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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