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title: He was indeed “a host in himself,” and his foes fled before him thin… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was indeed “a host in himself,” and his foes fled before him thinking he was only the first of a troop of such warriors, whom no one could withstand. Who acts: knight, host, one. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 50

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He was indeed “a host in himself,” and his foes fled before him thinking he was only the first of a troop of such warriors, whom no one could withstand.

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**Who acts:** knight, host, one · **What happens:** be, flee, think, withstand · **To what, where:** host, first, such warriors · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, host, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:13:50
# text = He was indeed “a host in himself,” and his foes fled before him thinking he was only the first of a troop of such warriors, whom no one could withstand.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	withstand	withstand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | knight | a host and knight's foes |  |  |  | in knight; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flee** | past | a host and knight's foes |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | knight | the first |  |  |  | of a troop of such warriors | tree rules |
| 5 | **withstand** | could | no one | such warriors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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