The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 160
‘Not so bewildering,’ replied the little soldier, ‘as your change into a serpent.’
Who acts: your · What happens: not bewilder, reply, change · To what, where: little soldier, serpent
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 (your), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bewildering | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bewildering | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 bewildering | advmod |
| 4 | bewildering | bewilder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bewildering | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bewildering | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldier | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soldier | amod |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 change | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 change | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 change | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 change | nmod:poss |
| 15 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soldier | appos |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 serpent | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 serpent | det |
| 18 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 change | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 change | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bewilder | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the little soldier | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | change | your | a serpent | nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent into=place |
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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