The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 223
‘Here they are,’ said the Kinglet, delighted with this change of tone, and he drew them from his bosom.
Who acts: eyes, Kinglet, tone · What happens: be, say, draw, change, bosom · To what, where: eyes, bosom · 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 (eyes, Kinglet, tone), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | parataxis |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Kinglet | det |
| 9 | Kinglet | Kinglet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 delighted | punct |
| 11 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Kinglet | amod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 change | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 change | det |
| 14 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 delighted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tone | case |
| 16 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 change | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drew | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drew | nsubj |
| 20 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drew | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 bosom | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drew | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | eyes = eye | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Kinglet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | Kinglet | eyes = eye | Kinglet's bosom | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from bosom=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | change | tone | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | bosom | Kinglet | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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