The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 186
That evening he was in front of the palace, wrapped in his red cloak.
Who acts: evening · What happens: be, wrap · To what, where: front, 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 (evening), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 front | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 front | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 front | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 front | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrapped | punct |
| 11 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 front | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cloak | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cloak | amod |
| 15 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 front | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that evening | front | of the palace | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wrap | participle | that evening not said here | idiot's red cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=Destination |
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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