The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 150
Somehow or other, the king’s strength and skill had departed from him, and soon the Gruagach was the victor.
Who acts: Gruagach · What happens: depart, be · To what, where: strength, victor
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gruagach), 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 | Somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 8 strength | advmod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 other | cc |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Somehow | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Somehow | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strength | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 skill | cc |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strength | conj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 departed | aux |
| 12 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 departed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 victor | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 victor | cc |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 victor | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Gruagach | det |
| 19 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 victor | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 victor | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 victor | det |
| 22 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 departed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past · perfect · passive | the king's strength and skill | from King | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Gruagach | the victor | soon 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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