The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 55
Fine marching orders, those, for a man starting from a country near where Japan is nowadays!
Who acts: man, Japan · What happens: start, be · To what, where: country
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Japan), 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 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 orders | amod |
| 2 | marching | marching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 orders | compound |
| 3 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 those | punct |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 orders | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 those | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 those | nmod |
| 10 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 man | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 starting | obl |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 nowadays | mark |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 nowadays | advmod |
| 16 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 nowadays | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 nowadays | cop |
| 18 | nowadays | nowadays | ADV | _ | 13 country | acl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 orders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | a man not said here | a country | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Japan | nowadays property | 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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