The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 110

So farewell,’ said he, and as the Seagull went back to her fishing he rolled himself in the mantle and threw himself down on a heap of dried grass, thinking of the strange things that had befallen him, till he suddenly exclaimed:

Who acts: King, Seagull, strange things · What happens: say, go back, roll, throw down, dry, think · To what, where: King, mantle, heap · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, Seagull, strange things), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
2	farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 farewell	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 farewell	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Seagull	det
11	Seagull	seagull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 fishing	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fishing	nmod:poss
16	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rolled	nsubj
18	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fishing	acl:relcl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 rolled	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 mantle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mantle	det
22	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rolled	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 threw	cc
24	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 threw	obj
26	down	down	ADP	_	24 threw	compound:prt
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 heap	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 heap	det
29	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 grass	case
31	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 grass	amod
32	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heap	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thinking	punct
34	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 threw	advcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 things	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 things	det
37	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 things	amod
38	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 thinking	obl
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 befallen	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 befallen	aux
41	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 things	acl:relcl
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 befallen	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 exclaimed	punct
44	till	till	SCONJ	_	47 exclaimed	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 exclaimed	nsubj
46	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	47 exclaimed	advmod
47	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 threw	conj
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go back	past	the Seagull			to Seagull's fishing result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fishing=Result
3	roll	past	King	King	the mantle		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in mantle=Trajectory
4	throw down	past	the Seagull not said here	King	a heap of dried grass		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on heap=Destination
5	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	think speech: other	gerund	the Seagull not said here			of the strange things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	befall	past · perfect	the strange things	King			tree rules
8	exclaim speech: express	past	King			suddenly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
9	fish		Seagull				nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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