The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 220
‘I thought you were simply a street vagabond,’ said she, in her most coaxing voice; ‘and I find you are more powerful than any king.
Who acts: I, you, Ludovine · What happens: think, be, say, find · To what, where: street vagabond, coaxing voice · 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 (I, you, Ludovine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:1769): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 vagabond | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 vagabond | cop |
| 6 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 9 vagabond | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 vagabond | det |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vagabond | compound |
| 9 | vagabond | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 voice | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 coaxing | advmod |
| 18 | coaxing | coaxing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 find | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 powerful | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 powerful | cop |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 powerful | advmod |
| 28 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 find | ccomp |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 king | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 powerful | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | you | a street vagabond | simply property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ludovine | Ludovine's coaxing voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | find | present | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | you | than any king; powerful property | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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