The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 150
The next day no one talked of anything but the rich lord who had distributed money as he drove along.
Who acts: rich lord, soldier · What happens: talk, distribute, drive · To what, where: next day, money
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 (rich lord, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talked | nsubj |
| 6 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 talked | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 lord | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lord | det |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lord | amod |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anything | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 distributed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 distributed | aux |
| 15 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 lord | acl:relcl |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 distributed | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 drove | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drove | nsubj |
| 19 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 distributed | advcl |
| 20 | along | along | ADV | _ | 19 drove | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | participle · passive | the next day | of anything | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | distribute | past · perfect | the rich lord | money | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | soldier | along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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