The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 127
The little soldier inquired the meaning of all this noise, and was told that the Princess Ludovine, the King’s beautiful daughter, had been found, and was about to make her triumphal entry.
Who acts: little soldier, Ludovine · What happens: inquire, tell, find, be, make, mean · To what, where: meaning, Princess Ludovine, triumphal entry, noise · 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 (little soldier, Ludovine), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inquired | nsubj |
| 4 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meaning | det |
| 6 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inquired | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 noise | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 noise | det:predet |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 noise | det |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meaning | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | aux:pass |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 inquired | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Ludovine | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ludovine | compound |
| 18 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 daughter | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 daughter | amod |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Ludovine | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ludovine | punct |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 told | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 about | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 about | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 about | cop |
| 32 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 inquired | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 make | mark |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 about | xcomp |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 entry | nmod:poss |
| 36 | triumphal | triumphal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 entry | amod |
| 37 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | the little soldier | the meaning of all noise | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent meaning=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the little soldier not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect · passive | the Princess Ludovine and the King's beautiful daughter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | about property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | Ludovine's triumphal entry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset entry=Product | |||||
| 6 | mean | all noise | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | enter | Ludovine | nom entry «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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