The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 182
‘That is not the way for a King to behave,’ thought John.
Who acts: That · What happens: not be, behave, think · To what, where: way, 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 (That), 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 | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 way | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 way | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 behave | mark |
| 11 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 way | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | That | the way | for a King | tree rules | |||
| 2 | behave | to-infinitive | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | John | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot john=Theme |
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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