The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 7

But this did not last long, for in time he came to a mountain pass, where a large army was waiting for him, who put his soldiers to flight, and took the king himself prisoner.

Who acts: this, last, large army, mountain pass · What happens: not last, come, wait, put, take · To what, where: mountain pass, soldiers, king

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, last, large army, mountain pass), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 last	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 last	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 last	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 last	advmod
5	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 last	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 last	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 pass	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pass	det
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pass	compound
16	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waiting	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 waiting	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 army	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 army	amod
21	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waiting	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 waiting	aux
23	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 pass	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 waiting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 put	nsubj
28	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pass	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 soldiers	nmod:poss
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 put	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 flight	case
32	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 took	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 took	cc
35	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 took	obj
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 took	obl
39	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 took	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not last	past · do-support	this				long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	last		a mountain pass	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pass=Initial_Location
3	wait	past · progressive	a large army				for last	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put	past	a mountain pass	last's soldiers			to flight	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent soldier=Goal
5	take	past	last not said here	the king			last obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Theme prisoner=Destination

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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