The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 219
However, even in this critical moment, Ludovine did not lose her head.
Who acts: Ludovine · What happens: not lose · To what, where: head
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 (Ludovine), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 12 lose | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 moment | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 moment | det |
| 6 | critical | critical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moment | amod |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 moment | punct |
| 9 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lose | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lose | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 lose | advmod |
| 12 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lose | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | past · do-support | Ludovine | Ludovine's head | moment | however property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
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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