The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 2

Once upon a time there was a little soldier who had just come back from the war.

Who acts: little soldier · What happens: be, come back · To what, where: war

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 (little 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 was	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 soldier	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soldier	amod
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 come	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 soldier	acl:relcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 war	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 war	det
17	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a little soldier			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past	a little soldier			the war			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from war=Initial_Location

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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