The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 169
I am a soldier, and my father is a boatman.’
Who acts: I, father · What happens: be · To what, where: soldier, boatman
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, father), 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 | 4 soldier | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 soldier | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boatman | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boatman | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boatman | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 boatman | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boatman | det |
| 11 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soldier | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 boatman | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 boatman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my father | a boatman | 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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