The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 142

He emptied the purse altogether and then shut it; when he opened it the fifty crowns were still there!

Who acts: soldier, fifty crowns · What happens: empty, shut, open, be · To what, where: purse

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 emptied	nsubj
2	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purse	det
4	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 emptied	obj
5	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	2 emptied	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shut	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 shut	advmod
8	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 emptied	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shut	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 opened	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 opened	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 opened	nsubj
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 emptied	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 opened	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crowns	det
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 crowns	nummod
17	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 opened	obj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 there	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 there	advmod
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 crowns	acl:relcl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 emptied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	empty	past	soldier	the purse		altogether property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent purse=Source
2	shut	infinitive	soldier not said here	purse	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	open	past	soldier	purse			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme crown=Destination
4	is	past	the fifty crowns not said here		still	there property	tree rules

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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