The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 106
When the lead had melted a little, I opened the vase with my knife and drew out a mantle of red cloth and a purse containing fifty crowns.
Who acts: I, purse · What happens: melt, open, draw out, contain · To what, where: lead, vase, mantle, fifty crowns
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, purse), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 melted | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lead | det |
| 3 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 melted | aux |
| 5 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 opened | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 melted | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 melted | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vase | det |
| 12 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 knife | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vase | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 drew | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mantle | det |
| 20 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cloth | case |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cloth | amod |
| 23 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mantle | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 purse | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 purse | det |
| 26 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mantle | conj |
| 27 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 purse | acl |
| 28 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 crowns | nummod |
| 29 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 containing | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | past · perfect · passive | the lead | a little obl:unmarked | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | open | past | I | the vase | with my knife | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vase=Patient with knife=Instrument | |||
| 3 | draw out | past | I not said here | a mantle of red cloth and a purse | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | contain | gerund | a purse not said here | fifty crowns | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crown=Theme |
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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