The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 224
Ludovine fastened one in his buttonhole and the other round his arm.
Who acts: Ludovine · What happens: fasten · To what, where: one, buttonhole
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 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fastened | nsubj |
| 2 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 fastened | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 buttonhole | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 buttonhole | nmod:poss |
| 6 | buttonhole | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fastened | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 other | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 buttonhole | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 arm | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arm | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fastened | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | Ludovine | one | Kinglet's buttonhole | round Kinglet's arm | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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