The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 229

‘Does she really mean to marry me,’ he thought to himself, ‘or is she only trying to deceive me again?’

Who acts: cunning, soldier · What happens: mean, marry, think, try, deceive · To what, where: me, soldier · 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 (cunning, soldier), 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	_	5 mean	punct
2	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 marry	mark
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mean	xcomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 marry	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 thought	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trying	punct
16	‘	‘	SYM	_	17 or	cc
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 trying	cc
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 trying	aux
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 trying	nsubj
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 trying	advmod
21	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 thought	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 deceive	mark
23	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 trying	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 deceive	obj
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 deceive	advmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 trying	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 trying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	cunning				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	cunning not said here	me			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	think speech: other	past	soldier		soldier		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	try	present · progressive	cunning				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	deceive not said to happen	to-infinitive	cunning not said here	me		again	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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