The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 5
At last Brandatimor engaged the whole army in a terrific conflict, and though the troops of Farda-Kinbras fought with desperate courage, their general was killed, and they were defeated and forced to retreat with immense loss.
Who acts: troops · What happens: engage, fight, kill, defeat, force, retreat · To what, where: whole army, last Brandatimor, general, troops
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 (troops), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Brandatimor | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Brandatimor | amod |
| 3 | Brandatimor | Brandatimor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obl |
| 4 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 army | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 army | amod |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 conflict | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 conflict | det |
| 10 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 conflict | amod |
| 11 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fought | cc |
| 14 | though | though | ADP | _ | 16 troops | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 troops | det |
| 16 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 fought | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Farda | case |
| 18 | Farda | Farda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 troops | nmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kinbras | punct |
| 20 | Kinbras | Kinbras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Farda | conj |
| 21 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 engaged | parataxis |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 courage | case |
| 23 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 courage | amod |
| 24 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fought | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 killed | punct |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 general | nmod:poss |
| 27 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 killed | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 killed | aux:pass |
| 29 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fought | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 defeated | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 defeated | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 defeated | aux:pass |
| 34 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 engaged | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 forced | cc |
| 36 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 defeated | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 retreat | mark |
| 38 | retreat | retreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 forced | xcomp |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 loss | case |
| 40 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 loss | amod |
| 41 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 retreat | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past | the whole army | last Brandatimor | in a terrific conflict goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent army=Theme in conflict=Goal | |||
| 2 | fight | past | the troops of Farda and Kinbras | with desperate courage | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with courage=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | Farda's general | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | defeat | past · passive | troops | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | retreat | to-infinitive | with immense loss | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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