The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 19

‘Chieftain, it was agreed we should give battle to thee alone, and it is harder for us to contend with yonder beast than with thee.’

Who acts: Chieftain, it, us · What happens: agree, give, be, contend · To what, where: Chieftain, battle, thee

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chieftain, it, us), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Chieftain	punct
2	Chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Chieftain	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 agreed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 agreed	aux:pass
6	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Chieftain	acl:relcl
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 thee	case
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 battle	nmod
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 give	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 harder	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 harder	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 harder	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 harder	cop
18	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 give	parataxis
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 contend	mark
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 contend	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 contend	mark
22	contend	contend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 harder	csubj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 beast	case
24	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	25 beast	advmod
25	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 contend	obl
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 thee	case
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 thee	case
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 contend	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past · passive	Chieftain not said here	Chieftain			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
2	give	should	Chieftain	battle	thee	alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent battle=Theme to thou=Recipient
3	is	present	it			hard property	tree rules
4	contend	to-infinitive	us			with beast; than thee	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with beast=Co-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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/19/