The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 22

He had not gone far on his way when he came upon the King of the Ants and the King of the Beetles, who, with their armies behind them, were facing each other and preparing for battle.

Who acts: Hereupon · What happens: not go, come, face, prepare · To what, where: way, each

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereupon), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 King	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Ants	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Ants	det
17	Ants	Ant	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 King	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 King	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Ants	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Beetles	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Beetles	det
23	Beetles	Beetle	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 King	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 armies	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 armies	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 armies	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 armies	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 armies	nmod:poss
29	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 King	conj
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 armies	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 facing	punct
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 facing	aux
34	facing	face	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
35	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	34 facing	obj
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 each	fixed
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 preparing	cc
38	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 facing	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 battle	case
40	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 preparing	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Hereupon		Hereupon's way	far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	come	past	Hereupon			upon the King of the Ants and the King of the Beetles and Beetles's armies behind armies	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon king=Location
3	face	past · progressive	Hereupon not said here	each			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme each=Destination
4	prepare	gerund	Hereupon not said here			for battle	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for battle=Beneficiary

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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