The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 203
‘Never,’ said the Princess, and put it calmly in her pocket.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: not say, put · To what, where: purse, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Never | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 10 put | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pocket | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl | ||
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the Princess not said here | purse | Princess's pocket | calmly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=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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