The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 20
He only made one step backwards, and grasped the hilt of his sword.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: make, grasp · To what, where: one step, hilt
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 step | nummod |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grasped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grasped | cc |
| 9 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hilt | det |
| 11 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grasped | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sword | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hilt | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | soldier | one step | backwards property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Product | |||
| 2 | grasp | past | soldier not said here | the hilt of soldier's sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hilt=Stimulus |
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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