The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 121

But as John was an honest fellow, he was troubled at the thought that the Seagull would think he had stolen her mantle and purse.

Who acts: John, Seagull · What happens: be, think, steal · To what, where: honest fellow, thought, mantle · 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 (John, Seagull), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 troubled	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 fellow	mark
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fellow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fellow	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fellow	det
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellow	amod
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 troubled	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fellow	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 troubled	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 troubled	cop
11	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 thought	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thought	det
14	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 troubled	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 think	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Seagull	det
17	Seagull	seagull	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 think	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 think	aux
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 troubled	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stolen	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stolen	aux
22	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 think	ccomp
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mantle	nmod:poss
24	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stolen	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 purse	cc
26	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mantle	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 troubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	John	a honest fellow			tree rules
2	is	past	John		the thought	troubled property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	would	the Seagull				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	steal	past · perfect	John	Seagull's mantle and purse			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mantle=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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