The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 251

Alas! there was no escape: two charming little horns, that would not have disgraced the head of a goat.

Who acts: escape, that · What happens: be, not disgrace · To what, where: head

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 (escape, that), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 escape	det
6	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 horns	punct
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 horns	nummod
9	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horns	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horns	amod
11	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 escape	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 disgraced	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 disgraced	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 disgraced	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 disgraced	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 disgraced	aux
17	disgraced	disgrace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 horns	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 disgraced	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 goat	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 goat	det
22	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 head	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no escape two charming little horns			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not disgrace	would · perfect	that	the head of a goat					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=Experiencer

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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