The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 21
But the fight with the giant had sorely tried him, and the youths fought well, and pressed him harder than before.
Who acts: youths · What happens: try, fight, press · To what, where: fight
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 giant | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fight | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tried | aux |
| 8 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 9 tried | advmod |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fought | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youths | det |
| 14 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fought | nsubj |
| 15 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tried | parataxis |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 fought | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pressed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pressed | cc |
| 19 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fought | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pressed | obj |
| 21 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 pressed | xcomp |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 before | case |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 harder | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · perfect · passive | the fight with the giant | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | the youths | well property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | press | past | the youths not said here | fight | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result |
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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