The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 132

‘Didn’t she know me?’ the little soldier asked himself, ‘or was she angry because I missed our meetings?’ and he followed the crowd till he got to the palace.

Who acts: Ludovine, little soldier, I, soldier · What happens: not know, ask, be, miss, follow, get · To what, where: me, soldier, meetings, crowd · 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 (Ludovine, little soldier, I, soldier), 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 know	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soldier	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 soldier	amod
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 asked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ‘	punct
15	‘	‘	SYM	_	12 asked	ccomp
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 angry	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 angry	cop
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 angry	nsubj
19	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 asked	conj
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 missed	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 missed	nsubj
22	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 angry	ccomp
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 meetings	nmod:poss
24	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 missed	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 meetings	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 meetings	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 followed	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 followed	nsubj
29	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 missed	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crowd	det
31	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 followed	obj
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 got	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 followed	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 palace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 palace	det
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Ludovine	me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	the little soldier	soldier		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past	Ludovine		angry property	tree rules
4	miss	past	I	our meetings		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meeting=Stimulus
5	follow	past	soldier	the crowd		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme
6	get	past	soldier		to the palace result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result

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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