The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 62
After a long battle they managed to overcome the wild beasts, but the greater number of the men were killed.
Who acts: men · What happens: manage, overcome, kill · To what, where: wild beasts, greater number
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (men), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 battle | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 battle | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 battle | amod |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 managed | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 managed | nsubj |
| 6 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 overcome | mark |
| 8 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 managed | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beasts | det |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beasts | amod |
| 11 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 overcome | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 killed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 killed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 number | det |
| 15 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 number | amod |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 number | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 killed | aux:pass |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 managed | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | men = man | after a long battle | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | overcome | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | the wild beasts | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beast=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | the greater number of the men | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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