The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 107
That is the mantle, covering my bed, and I have kept the money for my marriage-portion.
Who acts: That, mantle, I · What happens: be, cover, keep · To what, where: mantle, bed, money
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 (That, mantle, I), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 mantle | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mantle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mantle | det |
| 4 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mantle | punct |
| 6 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 mantle | acl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covering | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kept | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kept | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 kept | aux |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 mantle | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 money | det |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 portion | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 portion | nmod:poss |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 portion | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 marriage | punct |
| 20 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mantle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the mantle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | gerund | the mantle not said here | my bed | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Destination | ||||
| 3 | keep | present · perfect | I | the money | for my marriage portion | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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