The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 91
Hard did they fight, but Owen overthrew his enemy and drove him in front to the castle gate and into the hall.
Who acts: pages, Owen · What happens: fight, overthrow, drive · To what, where: enemy, Owen, front
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 (pages, Owen), 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 | Hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 fight | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fight | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fight | nsubj |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 overthrew | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 overthrew | cc |
| 7 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 overthrew | nsubj |
| 8 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fight | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overthrew | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drove | cc |
| 12 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overthrew | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drove | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drove | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 gate | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gate | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gate | compound |
| 19 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drove | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hall | cc |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 hall | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hall | det |
| 23 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gate | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · do-support | pages = page | hard property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | overthrow | past | Owen | Owen's enemy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | Owen not said here | Owen | front | to the castle gate and the hall | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in front=Destination to gate=Initial_Location |
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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