The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 114

He rubbed his eyes and pinched himself, and when he was quite sure he was not dreaming he said to a man who was smoking his pipe before the door, ‘Where am I?’

Who acts: soldier, man, I · What happens: rub, pinch, be, not dream, say, smoke · To what, where: eyes, soldier, man, pipe · 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 (soldier, man, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rubbed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pinched	cc
6	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 pinched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sure	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sure	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 sure	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sure	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sure	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 sure	advmod
14	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rubbed	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dreaming	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dreaming	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 dreaming	advmod
18	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sure	ccomp
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dreaming	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 man	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 smoking	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 smoking	aux
26	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 man	acl:relcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pipe	nmod:poss
28	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smoking	obj
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 door	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smoking	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Where	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 Where	punct
34	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 dreaming	conj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 Where	cop
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 Where	nsubj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 dreaming	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	soldier	soldier's eyes				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	pinch	past	soldier not said here	soldier				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	is	past	soldier				sure property	tree rules
4	not dream	past · progressive	soldier					vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past	soldier		a man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
6	smoke	past · progressive	a man	soldier's pipe		before the door		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source
7	is	present	I				where 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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