The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 138
He took out his purse to see what was left, and he found that there were still fifty crowns.
Who acts: soldier, fifty crowns · What happens: take out, see, leave, find, be · To what, where: purse · 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 (soldier, fifty crowns), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 purse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 left | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 see | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 were | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 were | expl |
| 17 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | ccomp |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 fifty | advmod |
| 19 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 crowns | nummod |
| 20 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 were | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | soldier | soldier's purse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | find | past | soldier | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be | past | fifty crowns | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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