The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 136
He felt that he needed his pipe to calm him, and he entered a tavern and ordered a pint of beer.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: feel, need, calm, enter, order · To what, where: pipe, soldier, tavern, pint
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 needed | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 needed | nsubj |
| 5 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 needed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 calm | mark |
| 9 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 needed | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 calm | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 entered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 entered | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 entered | nsubj |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tavern | det |
| 16 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ordered | cc |
| 18 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entered | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pint | det |
| 20 | pint | pint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ordered | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 beer | case |
| 22 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pint | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | soldier | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need | past | soldier | soldier's pipe | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pipe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | calm | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | soldier | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | enter | past | soldier | a tavern | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tavern=Destination | ||||
| 5 | order | past | soldier not said here | a pint of beer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pint=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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