The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 215

It had been prophesied that she should be delivered by a little soldier, and that she must marry him, unless he failed to appear at the meeting-place three times running.

Who acts: little soldier, daughter, soldier, three times · What happens: prophesy, deliver, marry, fail, not appear, run · To what, where: serpent, daughter, soldier, meeting place

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, daughter, soldier, three times), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prophesied	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prophesied	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 prophesied	aux:pass
4	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 delivered	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 delivered	nsubj:pass
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 delivered	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 delivered	aux:pass
9	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 prophesied	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 soldier	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 soldier	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soldier	amod
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 delivered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 marry	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 marry	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 marry	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 marry	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	aux
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 prophesied	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 marry	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 failed	punct
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	24 failed	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 failed	nsubj
24	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 appear	mark
26	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 failed	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	31 place	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 place	det
29	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 place	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 meeting	punct
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 appear	obl
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 times	nummod
33	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 appear	obl:unmarked
34	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 times	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prophesied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	prophesy	past · perfect · passive		serpent			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	deliver	should · passive	a little soldier	daughter			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	marry	must	daughter	soldier			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	fail a condition, not said to happen	past	soldier				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not appear	to-infinitive	soldier not said here		the meeting place	time	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location
6	run	gerund	three times not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/215/