The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 185
‘Of course I can get in whenever I like with the help of this.’
Who acts: I · What happens: get, like, help · To what, where: this
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 (I), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 6 get | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 whenever | case |
| 8 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 get | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whenever | advcl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 help | det |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 like | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 help | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 6 get | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | I | whenever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | like | present | I | with the help of this | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | help | this | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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