The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 156
The stake was fifty crowns, and each time he emptied his purse, which was full the next instant.
Who acts: stake, John, purse · What happens: be, empty · To what, where: fifty crowns, purse
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 (stake, John, purse), 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 stake | det |
| 2 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crowns | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crowns | cop |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 crowns | nummod |
| 5 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 emptied | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 emptied | cc |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 emptied | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 emptied | nsubj |
| 11 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crowns | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 purse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 emptied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 full | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 full | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 full | cop |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 purse | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 instant | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 instant | amod |
| 20 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the stake | fifty crowns | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | empty | past | John | John's purse | time | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent purse=Source | |||
| 3 | is | past | John's purse | the next instant obl:unmarked; full property | tree rules |
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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