The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 226
‘You are kinder than I thought,’ said John; ‘and you shall never be unhappy, for I love you.’
Who acts: You, I, John · What happens: be, think, say, not be, love · To what, where: you · 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 (You, I, John), 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 | _ | 4 kinder | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 kinder | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kinder | cop |
| 4 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 thought | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kinder | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kinder | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 kinder | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kinder | conj |
| 11 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 kinder | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 19 unhappy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 unhappy | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 unhappy | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 unhappy | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 unhappy | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 unhappy | cop |
| 19 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kinder | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 love | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 love | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 23 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kinder | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 love | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kinder | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 kinder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | shall | you | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | love | present | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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