The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 19

At such an unexpected sight many men would have turned and run for their lives; but the little soldier, though he was so small, had a true soldier’s heart.

Who acts: many men, soldier · What happens: turn, run, be, have · To what, where: unexpected sight, heart

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 (many men, soldier), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 sight	case
2	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	5 sight	det:predet
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sight	det
4	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sight	amod
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 turned	aux
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 run	cc
12	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 lives	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lives	nmod:poss
15	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 run	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 soldier	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 soldier	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soldier	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 soldier	amod
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 small	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 small	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 small	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 small	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 small	advmod
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turned	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 small	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 soldier	det
30	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 soldier	amod
31	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heart	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 soldier	case
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	would · perfect	many men		such unexpected sight		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at sight=Trajectory
2	run	present	many men not said here			for men's lives	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary
3	is	past	soldier			small property	tree rules
4	have	past		a true soldier's heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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