The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 11

Following his advice, he decided to have a pitched battle as soon as the enemy advanced, and this Brandatimor lost not a moment in doing, as he was perfectly persuaded that he was now going to make an end of the war and utterly vanquish Farda-Kinbras.

Who acts: counsel, Brandatimor, moment · What happens: follow, decide, have, pitch, not lose, do · To what, where: pitched battle, counsel, end, Farda

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsel, Brandatimor, moment), 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	Following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 advice	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 advice	nmod:poss
3	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 decided	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 advice	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 decided	nsubj
6	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 decided	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 battle	det
10	pitched	pitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 battle	amod
11	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 have	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 enemy	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 enemy	det
16	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soon	obl
17	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 enemy	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lost	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lost	cc
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 Brandatimor	det
21	Brandatimor	Brandatimor	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 lost	nsubj
22	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decided	conj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 lost	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lost	obj
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 doing	mark
27	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 moment	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 persuaded	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 persuaded	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 persuaded	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 persuaded	aux:pass
32	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	33 persuaded	advmod
33	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 lost	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 going	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 going	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 going	aux
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 going	advmod
38	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 persuaded	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 make	mark
40	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 going	xcomp
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 end	det
42	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 make	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 war	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 war	det
45	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 end	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 vanquish	cc
47	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	48 vanquish	advmod
48	vanquish	vanquish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 going	conj
49	Farda	Farda	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 vanquish	obj
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 Kinbras	punct
51	Kinbras	Kinbras	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Farda	flat
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	decide	past	counsel			follow counsel's advice	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	counsel not said here	a pitched battle		soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Patient
4	pitch	participle					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not lose	past	this Brandatimor		moment		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	gerund	a moment not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	persuade	past · passive		counsel		perfectly property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	go	past · progressive	counsel		now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	make	to-infinitive	counsel not said here	a end of the war			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product
10	vanquish	present	counsel not said here	Farda		utterly 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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