The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 22
Presently he came up with the beast, and they began a fight.
Who acts: Prince, hands · What happens: come up, begin · To what, where: fight
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hands), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 beast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beast | det |
| 7 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fight | det |
| 13 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Prince | with the beast; presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | hands = hand | a fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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