The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 21
‘The battle is lost and the King is dead, and in another moment the enemy will be here.’
Who acts: King, enemy · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: battle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, enemy), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dead | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lost | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 here | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 here | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 here | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 enemy | det |
| 17 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 here | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 here | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 here | cop |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lost | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · passive | the battle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the King | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | future | the enemy | moment | here 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 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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