The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 17
First of all Walter would fight against four, and then against three, then two, and then one, and now Walter wants help with one.
Who acts: Walter, three · What happens: fight, help
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 (Walter, three), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 fight | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 First | obl |
| 4 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fight | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fight | aux |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 four | case |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fight | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 help | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 three | advmod |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 three | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 help | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 two | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 two | advmod |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 three | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 one | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 one | advmod |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 three | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 help | cc |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 help | advmod |
| 24 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 wants | compound |
| 25 | wants | want | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 help | nsubj |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fight | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 help | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | would | Walter | against four; first property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | present | three | now | with one | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=Theme |
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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