The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 113
In one moment the little soldier found himself standing before a splendid palace.
Who acts: little soldier, soldier · What happens: find, stand · To what, where: soldier, splendid palace
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 (little soldier, soldier), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 moment | nummod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldier | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 soldier | amod |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 found | xcomp |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 12 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 palace | amod |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the little soldier | soldier | moment | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | soldier not said here | a splendid palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before palace=Location |
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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