The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 166

I passed three times, but he slept so soundly that no one could wake him.’

Who acts: I, John, one · What happens: pass, sleep, wake · To what, where: John

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 (I, John, one), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 slept	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 soundly	advmod
10	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	8 slept	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 wake	mark
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wake	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 wake	aux
15	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 slept	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wake	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	I		time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	past	John			soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wake	could	no one	John			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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