The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 5

When they came before the enemy, a battle took place, there was some hot fighting, and it rained bullets so thickly that his comrades fell around him on all sides.

Who acts: they, battle, hot fighting, it, comrades · What happens: come, take, be, rain, fall · To what, where: enemy, place, bullets, sides

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, battle, hot fighting, it), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	advcl
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 enemy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 enemy	det
6	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 battle	det
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 fighting	det
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fighting	amod
17	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rained	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rained	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rained	nsubj
21	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
22	bullets	bullet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rained	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 thickly	advmod
24	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rained	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 fell	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 comrades	nmod:poss
27	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 thickly	advcl
29	around	around	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 sides	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 sides	det
33	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fell	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	they		the enemy		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before enemy=Location
2	take	past	a battle	place			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	be	past	some hot fighting		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rain	past	it	bullets		thickly property	tree rules
5	fall	past	fighting's comrades		all sides	around fighting	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around he=Location

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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