The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 6

Mannikin did wonders, and half-a-dozen times turned the retreating forces and beat back the enemy; and he afterwards collected troops enough to keep them in check until, the severe winter setting in, put an end to hostilities for a while.

Who acts: Mannikin, half, severe winter · What happens: do, turn, retreat, beat back, collect, keep · To what, where: wonders, retreating forces, enemy, troops, check, end

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 (Mannikin, half, severe winter), 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	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 turned	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 half	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 times	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 dozen	punct
10	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forces	det
14	retreating	retreat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 forces	amod
15	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beat	cc
17	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 turned	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 beat	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 enemy	det
20	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beat	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 collected	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 collected	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 collected	nsubj
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	25 collected	advmod
25	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
26	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 collected	obj
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 collected	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 keep	mark
29	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 collected	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 keep	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 check	case
32	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 keep	obl
33	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 put	mark
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 winter	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 winter	det
36	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 winter	amod
37	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 put	obl
38	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 winter	acl
39	in	in	ADV	_	38 setting	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 winter	punct
41	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 keep	advcl
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 end	det
43	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 put	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 hostilities	case
45	hostilities	hostility	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 put	obl
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 while	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 while	det
48	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 put	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mannikin	wonders				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Eventuality
2	turn	past	half	the retreating forces				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent force=Theme
3	retreat	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	beat back	infinitive	half not said here	the enemy				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location enemy=Theme
5	collect	past	Mannikin	troops			afterwards, enough property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Theme
6	keep	to-infinitive	Mannikin not said here	troops	check			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in check=Location
7	set in	gerund	the severe winter not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	put	infinitive	Mannikin not said here	a end		while; winter	to hostilities	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal

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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