The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 177
Next evening he presented himself at the palace to play picquet with the King and to make his court to the Princess.
Who acts: moon · What happens: present, play, make · To what, where: moon, palace, picquet, court
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 (moon), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 evening | amod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 presented | nsubj |
| 4 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 presented | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 presented | advcl |
| 11 | picquet | picquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 play | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 court | nmod:poss |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | moon | moon | the palace | evening | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | moon not said here | picquet | with the King | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent picquet=Theme with king=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | moon not said here | moon's court | to the Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset court=Product |
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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