The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 253

‘As if it was not enough,’ said he, ‘that a woman should trick me, but the devil must mix himself up in it and lend me his horns.

Who acts: courage, John, woman, devil · What happens: not be, say, trick, mix up, lend · To what, where: me, John, courage, horns · 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 (courage, John, woman, devil), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	7 enough	mark
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 enough	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 enough	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 enough	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 enough	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 enough	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trick	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 trick	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 trick	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trick	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 trick	aux
18	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 trick	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mix	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 mix	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 devil	det
23	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mix	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 mix	aux
25	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 trick	parataxis
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 mix	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 mix	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mix	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lend	cc
31	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 mix	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 lend	iobj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 horns	nmod:poss
34	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lend	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	courage				enough property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	John					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	trick	should	a woman	me				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	mix up	must	the devil	John		courage		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	lend	infinitive	the devil not said here	John's horns	me			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horn=Theme

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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