The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 37

He soon came upon the King of the Ants and the King of the Beetles, who with their armies had encamped on the field of battle all night, and were ready to begin the fight again.

Who acts: Paul · What happens: come, encamp, be, begin · To what, where: Ants, field, fight

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 (Paul), 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	3 came	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Ants	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ants	det
9	Ants	Ant	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 King	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 King	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ants	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Beetles	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Beetles	det
15	Beetles	Beetle	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 King	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 encamped	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 encamped	nsubj:pass
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 armies	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 armies	nmod:poss
20	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 encamped	obl
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 encamped	aux
22	encamped	encamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Ants	acl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 field	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 field	det
25	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 encamped	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 battle	case
27	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 field	nmod
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 night	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 encamped	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ready	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ready	cc
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ready	cop
33	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 begin	mark
35	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 ready	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fight	det
37	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 begin	obj
38	again	again	ADV	_	35 begin	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Paul				upon the King of the Ants and the King of the Beetles; soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon king=Location
2	encamp	past · perfect · passive		the Ants and the King of the Beetles	the field of battle	night	with Beetles's armies	tree rules
3	is	past	Paul not said here				ready property	tree rules
4	begin	to-infinitive	Paul not said here	the fight		again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality

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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