The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 208
‘I never took such a long journey before.
Who acts: I · What happens: not take · To what, where: long journey
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 (I), 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 | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 journey | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 journey | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 journey | amod |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past | I | such long journey | before property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
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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