The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 129
He had scarcely time to dress himself when the golden coach of Ludovine went by.
Who acts: Kinglet, golden coach · What happens: have, dress, go by · To what, where: Kinglet
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 (Kinglet, golden coach), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dress | mark |
| 6 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 dress | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 went | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coach | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coach | amod |
| 11 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ludovine | case |
| 13 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 coach | nmod |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dress | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Kinglet | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dress | to-infinitive | Kinglet not said here | Kinglet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go by | past | the golden coach of Ludovine | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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