The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 205
‘He laughs best who laughs the last;’ and he took the Princess in his arms.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: laugh, take · To what, where: last, Princess, arms
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughs | nsubj |
| 3 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 laughs | advmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 laughs | nsubj |
| 6 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughs | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 last | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 laughs | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughs | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | soldier | well property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | the last | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | soldier | the Princess | soldier's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent princess=Value in arm=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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