The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 148

He drove twice round the city, throwing money to the right and left, and the third time, as he passed under the palace windows, he saw Ludovine lift a corner of the curtain and peep out.

Who acts: soldier, Ludovine · What happens: drive, throw, leave, pass, see, lift · To what, where: city, money, right, palace windows, corner

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, Ludovine), 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 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 drove	advmod
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 throwing	punct
8	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 drove	advcl
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throwing	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 right	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 right	det
12	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throwing	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 time	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 time	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
18	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 passed	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 passed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 passed	nsubj
23	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	parataxis
24	under	under	ADP	_	27 windows	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 windows	det
26	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 windows	compound
27	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 passed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 passed	conj
31	Ludovine	Ludovine	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 lift	nsubj
32	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 saw	xcomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 corner	det
34	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lift	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 curtain	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 curtain	det
37	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 corner	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 peep	cc
39	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 lift	conj
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 peep	compound:prt
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	soldier		the city		twice property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round city=Trajectory
2	throw	gerund	soldier not said here	money	the right			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent money=Theme to right=Destination
3	leave	past	soldier not said here			time		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pass	past	soldier		the palace windows			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under window=Location
5	see	past	soldier					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	lift	infinitive	Ludovine	a corner of the curtain				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme
7	peep out	infinitive	Ludovine not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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