The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 154
The King sent for the cards and they sat down to play.
Who acts: King, cards · What happens: send, sit down, play
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 (King, cards), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 cards | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cards | det |
| 6 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 sat | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 play | mark |
| 12 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sat | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | for the cards | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | cards = card | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | cards = card not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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