The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 238

Ludovine was watching him out of one eye, and no sooner did she hear him snore than she unfastened the mantle, drew it gently from under him and wrapped it round her, took the purse from his pocket, and put it in hers, and said: ‘I wish I was back in my own room.’

Who acts: Ludovine, Kinglet, I · What happens: watch, hear, snore, unfasten, draw, wrap · To what, where: Kinglet, one eye, mantle, head, purse, pocket · 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 (Ludovine, Kinglet, I), 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	3 watching	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 watching	aux
3	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 watching	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 eye	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 eye	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 eye	nummod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watching	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hear	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 sooner	det
12	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 hear	advmod
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hear	aux
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 watching	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	obj
17	snore	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hear	xcomp
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 unfastened	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 unfastened	nsubj
20	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 snore	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mantle	det
22	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 unfastened	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drew	punct
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 unfastened	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drew	obj
26	gently	gently	ADV	_	24 drew	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 him	case
28	under	under	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drew	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wrapped	cc
31	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 drew	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wrapped	obj
33	round	round	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wrapped	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 drew	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 purse	det
38	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 pocket	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 pocket	nmod:poss
41	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 put	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 put	cc
44	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 snore	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 put	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 hers	case
47	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 put	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 said	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 said	cc
50	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 watching	conj
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	54 wish	punct
52	‘	'	PUNCT	_	54 wish	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 wish	nsubj
54	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 said	ccomp
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 room	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 room	cop
57	back	back	ADV	_	61 room	advmod
58	in	in	ADP	_	61 room	case
59	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 room	nmod:poss
60	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 room	amod
61	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 wish	ccomp
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 watching	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 watching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	Ludovine	Kinglet	one eye		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	hear	past · do-support	Ludovine	Kinglet		soon property	tree rules
3	snore	infinitive	Kinglet not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	unfasten	past	Ludovine	the mantle			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Patient
5	draw	past		head		from Kinglet; gently property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from he=Initial_Location
6	wrap	past		head		round Ludovine	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	take	past		the purse	Kinglet's pocket		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent purse=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
8	put	infinitive	Kinglet not said here	head		in Ludovine	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in her=Destination
9	say speech: assert	past	Ludovine not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
11	is	past	I		my own room		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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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