The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 147

Inside sat John, clad in blue velvet, with a bouquet of immortelles in his hand and a scarf bound round his arm.

What happens: sit, clad, bind · To what, where: John, blue velvet, scarf

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: 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	Inside	inside	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clad	punct
5	clad	clad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 velvet	case
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 velvet	amod
8	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clad	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bouquet	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 bouquet	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bouquet	det
12	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clad	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 immortelles	case
14	immortelles	immortelle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bouquet	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bouquet	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 scarf	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 scarf	det
20	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hand	conj
21	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 scarf	acl
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 arm	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arm	nmod:poss
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bound	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	John		inside property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location john=Theme
2	clad	past		blue velvet	with a bouquet of immortelles in soldier's hand and a scarf	tree rules
3	bind	participle	a scarf not said here		round soldier's arm	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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