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English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 72

They fought, and they fought, and they fought, till Childe Rowland beat the King of Elfland down on to his knees, and caused him to yield and beg for mercy.

Who acts: arches, Childe · What happens: fight, beat, cause, yield, beg · To what, where: King, Childe

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arches, Childe), 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

nsubjpunctccnsubjconjpunctccnsubjparataxispunctmarknsubjflatconjdetobjcasenmodadvmodadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctccparataxisobjmarkxcompccconjcaseoblpunctrootTheyPRONfoughtVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONfoughtVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONfoughtVERB,PUNCTtillSCONJChildePROPNRowlandPROPNbeatVERBtheDETKingPROPNofADPElflandPROPNdownADVonADVtoADPhisPRONkneesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJcausedVERBhimPRONtoPARTyieldVERBandCCONJbegVERBforADPmercyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 foughtnsubj
2foughtfightVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_6 foughtpunct
4andandCCONJ_6 foughtcc
5theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs6 foughtnsubj
6foughtfightVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 foughtconj
7,,PUNCT_10 foughtpunct
8andandCCONJ_10 foughtcc
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 foughtnsubj
10foughtfightVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 foughtparataxis
11,,PUNCT_15 beatpunct
12tilltillSCONJ_15 beatmark
13ChildeChildePROPNNumber=Sing15 beatnsubj
14RowlandRowlandPROPNNumber=Sing13 Childeflat
15beatbeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 foughtconj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Kingdet
17KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing15 beatobj
18ofofADP_19 Elflandcase
19ElflandElflandPROPNNumber=Sing17 Kingnmod
20downdownADV_21 onadvmod
21ononADV_15 beatadvmod
22totoADP_24 kneescase
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 kneesnmod:poss
24kneeskneeNOUNNumber=Plur21 onobl
25,,PUNCT_27 causedpunct
26andandCCONJ_27 causedcc
27causedcauseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 foughtparataxis
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 causedobj
29totoPART_30 yieldmark
30yieldyieldVERBVerbForm=Inf27 causedxcomp
31andandCCONJ_32 begcc
32begbegVERBVerbForm=Inf30 yieldconj
33forforADP_34 mercycase
34mercymercyNOUNNumber=Sing32 begobl
35..PUNCT_2 foughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fightpastarches = archvn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2fightpastarches = archvn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3fightpastarches = archvn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4beatpastChildethe King of Elflandvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme
5causepastChildetree rules
6yieldto-infinitiveChilde not said herevn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7beg speech: requestinfinitiveChilde not said herefor mercyvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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