The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 246

‘Here goes for the plums,’ he said to himself, ‘all is fair in war.’

Who acts: John, all · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: John, war · 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, all), 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	_	3 goes	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 plums	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plums	det
6	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fair	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 fair	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 fair	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fair	cop
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 war	case
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fair	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present			here	for the plums	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for plum=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	John	John			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	is	present	all		war	fair property	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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