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The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 37

Though he had only his dagger, he defended himself so well that he escaped without any harm, and presently the old Fairy stopped the fray and asked the Prince if he was still of the same mind.

Who acts: Prince, old Fairy · What happens: have, defend, escape, stop, ask, be · To what, where: dagger, Prince, fray

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, old Fairy), 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

marknsubjadvcladvmodnmod:possobjpunctnsubjobjadvmodadvmodmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctccadvmoddetamodnsubjparataxisdetobjccconjdetobjmarknsubjcopadvmodcasedetamodccomppunctrootThoughSCONJhePRONhadVERBonlyADVhisPRONdaggerNOUN,PUNCThePRONdefendedVERBhimselfPRONsoADVwellADVthatSCONJhePRONescapedVERBwithoutADPanyDETharmNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJpresentlyADVtheDEToldADJFairyPROPNstoppedVERBtheDETfrayNOUNandCCONJaskedVERBtheDETPrincePROPNifSCONJhePRONwasAUXstillADVofADPtheDETsameADJmindNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThoughthoughSCONJ_3 hadmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 hadnsubj
3hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 defendedadvcl
4onlyonlyADV_6 daggeradvmod
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 daggernmod:poss
6daggerdaggerNOUNNumber=Sing3 hadobj
7,,PUNCT_3 hadpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 defendednsubj
9defendeddefendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes9 defendedobj
11sosoADV_12 welladvmod
12wellwellADVDegree=Pos9 defendedadvmod
13thatthatSCONJ_15 escapedmark
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 escapednsubj
15escapedescapeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 defendedadvcl
16withoutwithoutADP_18 harmcase
17anyanyDETPronType=Ind18 harmdet
18harmharmNOUNNumber=Sing15 escapedobl
19,,PUNCT_25 stoppedpunct
20andandCCONJ_25 stoppedcc
21presentlypresentlyADV_25 stoppedadvmod
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 Fairydet
23oldoldADJDegree=Pos24 Fairyamod
24FairyFairyPROPNNumber=Sing25 stoppednsubj
25stoppedstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 defendedparataxis
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 fraydet
27frayfrayNOUNNumber=Sing25 stoppedobj
28andandCCONJ_29 askedcc
29askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 stoppedconj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 Princedet
31PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing29 askedobj
32ififSCONJ_39 mindmark
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 mindnsubj
34wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 mindcop
35stillstillADV_39 mindadvmod
36ofofADP_39 mindcase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 minddet
38samesameADJDegree=Pos39 mindamod
39mindmindNOUNNumber=Sing29 askedccomp
40..PUNCT_9 defendedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastPrincePrince's daggervn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Patient
2defendpastPrincePrincewell propertyvn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
3escapepastPrincewithout any harmvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4stoppastthe old Fairythe fraypresently propertyvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector fray=Eventuality
5ask speech: askpastthe old Fairy not said herethe Princevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
6is a condition, not said to happenpastPrincestillof the same mindtree 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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