The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 139

‘The Seagull must have miscounted,’ thought he, and he paid for his beer.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: miscount, think, pay · To what, where: Seagull, soldier

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 miscounted	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Seagull	det
3	Seagull	seagull	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miscounted	nsubj:pass
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 miscounted	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 miscounted	aux
6	miscounted	miscount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thought	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 miscounted	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 miscounted	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 paid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 paid	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 paid	nsubj
14	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 beer	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 beer	nmod:poss
17	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paid	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	miscount	must · perfect · passive		the Seagull		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past		soldier		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	pay	past	soldier		for soldier's beer	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for beer=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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