The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 118

For three days and three nights the battle raged, and sometimes one had the upper hand, and sometimes the other, till at length they both lay struggling on the ground, but Petru was on top, with the point of his sword at the giant’s throat.

Who acts: battle, one, gardens, Petru · What happens: rage, have, lay, struggle, be, point · To what, where: upper hand, length, ground, top, sword, throat

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (battle, one, gardens, Petru), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 raged	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nights	cc
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nights	nummod
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 battle	det
8	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 raged	nsubj
9	raged	rage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 raged	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hand	det
16	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hand	amod
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 other	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 other	cc
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 other	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 raged	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 lay	mark
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 length	case
26	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lay	nsubj
28	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 raged	advcl
30	struggling	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 lay	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 struggling	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 top	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 top	cc
36	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 top	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 top	cop
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 top	case
39	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 raged	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 point	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 point	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 point	det
43	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 raged	parataxis
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 sword	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 sword	nmod:poss
46	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 point	nmod
47	at	at	ADP	_	51 throat	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 giant	det
49	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 throat	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 giant	case
51	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 point	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 raged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	rage	past	the battle			day	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	one	the upper hand			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	lay	present	gardens = garden		length		tree rules
4	struggle	gerund	gardens = garden not said here		the ground		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Petru		top		tree rules
6	point			Petru's sword	the giant's throat		nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient at=place

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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