The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 191
‘A thousand,’ finished John.
Who acts: thousand · What happens: finish · To what, where: 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 (thousand), 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 finished | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thousand | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 finished | cc |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | a thousand | John | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality john=Eventuality |
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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