The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 119
‘Why the King of the Low Countries!’ replied the man, laughing and supposing that he was mad.
Who acts: King · What happens: reply, laugh, suppose, be · To what, where: man
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), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 replied | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Countries | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Countries | det |
| 7 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Countries | amod |
| 8 | Countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 King | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laughing | punct |
| 15 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 replied | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 supposing | cc |
| 17 | supposing | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 laughing | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 mad | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mad | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mad | cop |
| 21 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 supposing | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the King of the Low Countries | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the King of the Low Countries not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suppose | gerund | the King of the Low Countries not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | King | mad 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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