The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 5

But hard was the boar to catch, and fiercely did he fight when Arthur’s men gave him battle, so that many of them were slain.

Who acts: hard boar, boar, men, many · What happens: be, catch, fight, give, battle · To what, where: hard boar, boar

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hard boar, boar, men, many), 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	_	7 catch	cc
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boar	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boar	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boar	det
5	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 catch	mark
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fight	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fight	cc
10	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	13 fight	advmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fight	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fight	nsubj
13	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 catch	conj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 gave	advmod
15	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 men	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Arthur	case
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fight	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	battle	battle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 gave	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 slain	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 slain	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 slain	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 many	nmod
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 slain	cop
28	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 battle	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the hard boar			tree rules
2	catch	to-infinitive	the hard boar				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fight	past · do-support	boar			fiercely property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	Arthur's men		boar		tree rules
5	battle	infinitive	Arthur's men not said here				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	many of Arthur			slain property	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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