The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 9
Thither Arthur followed after him with his knights, and if it had been hard to win the razor and the scissors, the struggle for the comb was fiercer still, but at length Arthur prevailed, and the boar was driven into the sea.
Who acts: Arthur, hold, struggle · What happens: follow, be, win, prevail, drive · To what, where: razor, length, boar, sea
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 (Arthur, hold, struggle), 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 | Thither | thither | ADV | _ | 3 followed | advmod |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 knights | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knights | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 win | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 win | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 hard | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hard | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 hard | cop |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 win | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 win | mark |
| 17 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 razor | det |
| 19 | razor | razor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 win | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 scissors | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 scissors | det |
| 22 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 razor | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 struggle | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 struggle | det |
| 25 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fiercer | nsubj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 comb | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 comb | det |
| 28 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 struggle | nmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fiercer | cop |
| 30 | fiercer | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 razor | amod |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 fiercer | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 prevailed | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 prevailed | cc |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 length | case |
| 35 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 prevailed | obl |
| 36 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 length | appos |
| 37 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 driven | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 driven | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 boar | det |
| 41 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 driven | aux:pass |
| 43 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 prevailed | conj |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 sea | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sea | det |
| 46 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 driven | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Arthur | after boar | with boar's knights; thither property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | hold | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive | the razor and the scissors | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent razor=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the struggle for the comb | still | fierce property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | prevail | past | length | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||||
| 6 | drive | past · passive | the boar | the sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme into sea=Trajectory |
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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