The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 62
He took the command of the army which was brought against the wicked King, and defeated him in a glorious battle, so that peace was at once concluded on conditions that were just to everyone.
Who acts: Rosimond, conditions · What happens: take, bring, defeat, conclude, be, command · To what, where: command, army, Rosimond, glorious battle, peace, conditions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond, conditions), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 command | det |
| 4 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 army | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 army | det |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 command | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 army | acl:relcl |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 King | amod |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 defeated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 defeated | cc |
| 17 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 defeated | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 battle | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 battle | det |
| 21 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 battle | amod |
| 22 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 defeated | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 concluded | punct |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 30 concluded | mark |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 concluded | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 concluded | aux:pass |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 once | case |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 concluded | obl |
| 30 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 defeated | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 conditions | case |
| 32 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 concluded | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 everyone | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 everyone | cop |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 everyone | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 everyone | case |
| 37 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 conditions | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Rosimond | the command of the army | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | the army | against the wicked King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against king=Destination | ||||
| 3 | defeat | past | Rosimond | a glorious battle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | conclude | past · passive | peace | conditions | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | conditions | to everyone | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | command | the army | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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