The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 125
Enchanted with this discovery, he ordered supper, and as it was too late to visit the King that night he went to bed.
Who acts: John, supper · What happens: enchant, order, be, visit, go · To what, where: supper, King, night
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, supper), 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 | Enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ordered | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 discovery | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 discovery | det |
| 4 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Enchanted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Enchanted | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ordered | nsubj |
| 7 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ordered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 late | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 late | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 late | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 late | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 late | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 late | advmod |
| 15 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ordered | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 visit | mark |
| 17 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 late | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 visit | obj |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 visit | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 night | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | John not said here | with this discovery | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | order | past | John | supper | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | supper | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | visit | to-infinitive | supper not said here | the King | night | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | go | past | John | that night not said here | to bed | 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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