The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 30
She guided the fan above the spot where the two armies lay encamped before each other ready to give battle.
Who acts: heart · What happens: guide, encamp, give · To what, where: fan, spot, two armies, battle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 guided | nsubj |
| 2 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fan | det |
| 4 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guided | obj |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spot | det |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fan | nmod |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 encamped | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 armies | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 armies | nummod |
| 11 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 encamped | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 encamped | aux:pass |
| 13 | encamped | encamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spot | acl:relcl |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 ready | mark |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 ready | nsubj |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ready | amod |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 encamped | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ready | xcomp |
| 20 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 guided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | past | heart | the fan | the spot | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fan=Theme above spot=Destination | |||
| 2 | encamp | past · passive | the two armies | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | battle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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