The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 67
He played the boastful soldier, and the merry smith, and he had comrades and boon-companions in plenty.
Who acts: remainder · What happens: play, have · To what, where: boastful soldier, comrades, plenty
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 played | nsubj |
| 2 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 4 | boastful | boastful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soldier | amod |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 played | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smith | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smith | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 smith | det |
| 9 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smith | amod |
| 10 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 played | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 played | conj |
| 15 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 companions | cc |
| 17 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 companions | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 boon | punct |
| 19 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 comrades | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 plenty | case |
| 21 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | remainder | the boastful soldier | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | remainder | comrades and boon companions | plenty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Patient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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