--- title: At last Brandatimor engaged the whole army in a terrific conflict, a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last Brandatimor engaged the whole army in a terrific conflict, and though the troops of Farda-Kinbras fought with desperate courage, their general was killed, and they were defeated and forced to retreat with immense loss. Who acts: troops. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troops), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:17:5 # text = At last Brandatimor engaged the whole army in a terrific conflict, and though the troops of Farda-Kinbras fought with desperate courage, their general was killed, and they were defeated and forced to retreat with immense loss. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Brandatimor Brandatimor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 engaged engage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 terrific terrific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 conflict conflict NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 though though ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 troops troops NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 21 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Farda Farda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Kinbras Kinbras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 desperate desperate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 general general NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 defeated defeat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 retreat retreat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 immense immense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **engage** | past | | the whole army | | last Brandatimor | | in a terrific conflict *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent army=Theme in conflict=Goal | | 2 | **fight** | past | the troops of Farda and Kinbras | | | | | with desperate courage | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with courage=Co-Agent | | 3 | **kill** | past · passive | | Farda's general | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **defeat** | past · passive | | troops | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **force** | participle | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **retreat** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with immense loss | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/6/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/)