The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 183
‘Old scoundrel!’ and then suddenly he remembered his red cloak.
Who acts: Old scoundrel · What happens: remember · To what, where: red cloak
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 (Old scoundrel), 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 | _ | 3 scoundrel | punct |
| 2 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scoundrel | amod |
| 3 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 scoundrel | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 scoundrel | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 remembered | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 remembered | advmod |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 remembered | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remembered | nsubj |
| 10 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloak | amod |
| 13 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remembered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Old scoundrel | scoundrel's red cloak | then | suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cloak=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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