The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 242

He tore his hair, he beat his breast, he trampled on the bouquet, and tore the scarf of the traitress to atoms.

Who acts: John · What happens: tore, beat, trample · To what, where: hair, breast, bouquet, scarf

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beat	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beat	nsubj
7	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tore	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 breast	nmod:poss
9	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trampled	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 trampled	nsubj
12	trampled	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tore	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 bouquet	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bouquet	det
15	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trampled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tore	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tore	cc
18	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trampled	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 scarf	det
20	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tore	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 traitress	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 traitress	det
23	traitress	traitress	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 scarf	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 atoms	case
25	atoms	atom	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tore	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tore	past	John	John's hair			tree rules
2	beat	past	John	John's breast			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breast=Theme
3	trample	past	John		the bouquet		tree rules
4	tore	past	John not said here	the scarf of the traitress		to atoms	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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