The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 143

Then a plan came into his head, and he determined to go at once to the Court tailor and coachbuilder.

Who acts: plan, soldier · What happens: come, determine, go · To what, where: head

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 (plan, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plan	det
3	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 determined	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 determined	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 determined	nsubj
11	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 determined	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 go	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 tailor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tailor	det
18	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tailor	compound
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 coachbuilder	cc
21	coachbuilder	coachbuilder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tailor	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a plan	soldier's head	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location
2	determine	past	soldier				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	to-infinitive	soldier not said here			to the Court tailor and coachbuilder	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tailor=Initial_Location

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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