The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 7
Then others followed him, and he pressed on and defeated the enemy.
Who acts: others, youth · What happens: follow, press on, defeat · To what, where: youth, enemy
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 (others, youth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 followed | advmod |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pressed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pressed | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pressed | nsubj |
| 8 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 pressed | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 defeated | cc |
| 11 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pressed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 enemy | det |
| 13 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 defeated | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | others | youth | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | press on | past | youth | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | defeat | past | youth not said here | the enemy | 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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