The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 137

‘It is this miserable soldier’s helmet,’ said he to himself ‘If I had only money enough I could look as splendid as the lords of the Court; but what is the good of thinking of that when I have only the remains of the Seagull’s fifty crowns?’

Who acts: pint, helmet, soldier, I, Seagull · What happens: be, say, have, look, think, crown · To what, where: helmet, money, remains · 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 (pint, helmet, soldier, I), 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	_	8 helmet	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 helmet	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 helmet	cop
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 soldier	det
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soldier	amod
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helmet	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 soldier	case
8	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 helmet	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 helmet	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 he	nmod
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	If	if	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 look	advcl
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 money	advmod
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 had	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 look	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 look	aux
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 splendid	advmod
26	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 look	xcomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 lords	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lords	det
29	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 splendid	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Court	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Court	det
32	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lords	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 good	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 good	cc
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 good	obl
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 good	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 good	det
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
39	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 thinking	mark
40	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 good	advcl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 that	case
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 thinking	obl
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 have	advmod
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 have	nsubj
45	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 thinking	advcl
46	only	only	ADV	_	48 remains	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 remains	det
48	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	45 have	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	54 crowns	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Seagull	det
51	Seagull	Seagull	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 crowns	nmod:poss
52	’s	's	PART	_	51 Seagull	case
53	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 crowns	nummod
54	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 remains	nmod
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	38 good	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	pint	this miserable soldier's helmet		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	this miserable soldier's helmet			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	soldier	money	enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	look	could	I		splendid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	present			good property	tree rules
6	think speech: other	gerund			of that	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	present	I	the remains of the Seagull's fifty crowns		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Patient
8	crown		the Seagull			nom crown «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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