The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 181
When this had happened five or six times, he began to understand that they were making fun of him.
Who acts: this, moon, father · What happens: happen, begin, understand, make · To what, where: fun
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 (this, moon, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 began | advcl |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 six | cc |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 five | conj |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 understand | mark |
| 13 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 making | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 making | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 making | aux |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 understand | advcl |
| 18 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fun | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | this | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | moon | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | understand | to-infinitive | moon not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | make | past · progressive | father | fun of moon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=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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