The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 3

However, when nearly all the strangers had been defeated, a young unknown knight presented himself.

Who acts: young unknown knight · What happens: defeat, present · To what, where: strangers, King

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young unknown knight), 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	However	however	ADV	_	10 defeated	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 nearly	advmod
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 strangers	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strangers	det
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 defeated	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 defeated	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 defeated	aux:pass
10	defeated	defeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 defeated	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 knight	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knight	amod
14	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knight	amod
15	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 presented	nsubj
16	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 defeated	parataxis
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 presented	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 defeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	defeat	past · perfect · passive		all strangers				however property	tree rules
2	present	past	a young unknown knight	King					vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 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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