The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 241
Who felt foolish but John, when he awoke, twenty-four hours after, and found himself without purse, without mantle, and without Princess?
Who acts: John · What happens: feel, awake, find · To what, where: John
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 (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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 John | cc |
| 5 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 foolish | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 awoke | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 awoke | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 awoke | nsubj |
| 9 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hours | punct |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 four | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 twenty | punct |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hours | nummod |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | after | after | ADV | _ | 14 hours | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 awoke | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 found | obj |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 purse | case |
| 21 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mantle | punct |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 mantle | case |
| 24 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Princess | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Princess | cc |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 Princess | case |
| 28 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | without Princess; foolish property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | awake | past | John | hour | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | John not said here | John | without purse; without mantle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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