The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 173
‘But you can lend it to me till our wedding-day,’ said the Princess with one of those glances the little soldier never could resist.
Who acts: you, Princess · What happens: lend, say, glance, not resist · To what, where: purse, me, little soldier · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Princess), 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 | _ | 5 lend | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 lend | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lend | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lend | aux |
| 5 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lend | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lend | obl |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 day | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wedding | punct |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lend | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lend | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lend | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glances | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 Princess | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 those | case |
| 22 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 one | nmod |
| 23 | glances | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 soldier | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 soldier | amod |
| 26 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glances | obj |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 resist | advmod |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 resist | aux |
| 29 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 glances | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | can | you | purse | me | day | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | glance | present | the Princess with one of those | the little soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not resist | could | the Princess with one of those not said here | 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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