The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 30
The emperor fell on him when he was off his guard, and routed his army completely.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: fall, be, rout · To what, where: guard, army
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 guard | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 guard | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 guard | cop |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 was | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 guard | nmod:poss |
| 11 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 routed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 routed | cc |
| 14 | routed | rout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 army | nmod:poss |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 routed | obj |
| 17 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 14 routed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the emperor | on king | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | emperor | emperor's guard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rout | past | the emperor not said here | emperor's army | completely property | 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 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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