The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 28
And hastily assembling whatever soldiers happened to be at hand he set off at once to meet the enemy.
Who acts: whatever, emperor · What happens: assemble, happen, be, set off, meet · To what, where: hand, enemy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whatever, emperor), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 assembling | cc |
| 2 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 assembling | advmod |
| 3 | assembling | assemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assembling | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hand | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hand | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | acl:relcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 set | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 enemy | det |
| 19 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assembling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | gerund | hastily property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | hand | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | set off | past | emperor | hand not said here | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hand=Patient | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | emperor not said here | the enemy | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Co-Agent |
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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