The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 134
Snati immediately sprang upon him, and Ring assisted in the attack, and after a hard struggle they mastered him a second time.
Who acts: Snati, Ring, trolls · What happens: spring, assist, master · To what, where: attack, Ring
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snati, Ring, trolls), 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 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 assisted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 assisted | cc |
| 8 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 assisted | nsubj |
| 9 | assisted | assist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 attack | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 attack | det |
| 12 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assisted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mastered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mastered | cc |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 struggle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 struggle | det |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 struggle | amod |
| 18 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mastered | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 mastered | nsubj |
| 20 | mastered | master | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 mastered | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mastered | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | Snati | upon river; immediately property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | assist | past | Ring | the attack | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | master | past | trolls = troll | Ring | after a hard struggle; time | 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 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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