The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 244

He thought of all the wonderful things his grandmother had told him when he was a child, but none of them helped him now.

Who acts: John, wonderful things, none · What happens: think, tell, be, help · To what, where: grandmother, John, child · 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 (John, wonderful things, none), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 things	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 things	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 things	det
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	obl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grandmother	nmod:poss
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 things	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 child	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 child	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 child	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 helped	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 helped	cc
20	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	23 helped	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 none	nmod
23	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 helped	obj
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 helped	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	John				of all wonderful things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	all wonderful things not said here	John's grandmother	John			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
3	is a	past	John	a child				tree rules
4	help	past	none		John	now		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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