The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 123
Then he remembered that the mantle had some hidden charm that enabled the bearer to transport himself at will from place to place, and in order to make sure of this he wished himself in the best inn of the town.
Who acts: John, mantle, hidden charm · What happens: remember, have, enable, transport, make, wish · To what, where: hidden charm, bearer, John, place, best inn · 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, mantle, hidden charm), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mantle | det |
| 6 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | ccomp |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 charm | det |
| 9 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 charm | amod |
| 10 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 enabled | nsubj |
| 12 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 charm | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bearer | det |
| 14 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enabled | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 transport | mark |
| 16 | transport | transport | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 enabled | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 transport | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 will | case |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 transport | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 transport | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 make | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 make | cc |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 make | mark |
| 27 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 in | fixed |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 make | mark |
| 29 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | parataxis |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 make | xcomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 this | case |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 sure | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wished | nsubj |
| 34 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sure | ccomp |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 wished | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 inn | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 inn | det |
| 38 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 inn | amod |
| 39 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 wished | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 town | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 town | det |
| 42 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 inn | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | John | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the mantle | some hidden charm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Patient | ||||
| 3 | enable | past | some hidden charm | the bearer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | transport | to-infinitive | some hidden charm not said here | John | place to place | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from place=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 6 | wish | past | John | John | the best inn of the town | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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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