The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 128
‘That will just suit me,’ thought the Kinglet; ‘I will stand at the door and see if she knows me.’
Who acts: That, I, Ludovine · What happens: suit, think, stand, see, know · To what, where: me, Kinglet, door
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 (That, I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 suit | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 suit | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 suit | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 suit | advmod |
| 5 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 suit | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suit | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Kinglet | det |
| 11 | Kinglet | Kinglet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stand | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 stand | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 stand | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stand | aux |
| 16 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 suit | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stand | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 see | cc |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stand | conj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 knows | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knows | nsubj |
| 24 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 knows | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suit | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 suit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | future | That | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | That not said here | the Kinglet | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kinglet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | future | I | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | Ludovine | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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