The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 141
He took away five and counted a third time, but there were still fifty.
Who acts: soldier, fifty · What happens: take away, count, be · To what, where: five
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), 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 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 counted | cc |
| 6 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 counted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 were | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 fifty | advmod |
| 15 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 were | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | soldier | five | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Theme | |||
| 2 | count | past | soldier not said here | time | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be | past | fifty | 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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