The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 255
But as he was still hungry, and the mischief was done, he climbed boldly up another tree, and plucked two plums of a lovely green colour.
Who acts: figure · What happens: be, do, climb, pluck · To what, where: mischief, tree, two plums
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 (figure), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 climbed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 hungry | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hungry | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 hungry | advmod |
| 6 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 climbed | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 done | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mischief | det |
| 10 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hungry | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hungry | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 climbed | nsubj |
| 15 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 climbed | advmod |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 climbed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 plucked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plucked | cc |
| 22 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 climbed | conj |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 plums | nummod |
| 24 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 plucked | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 colour | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 colour | det |
| 27 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 colour | amod |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 colour | amod |
| 29 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plums | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | figure | still | hungry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past · passive | the mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | climb | past | figure | another tree | boldly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up tree=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | pluck | past | figure not said here | two plums of a lovely green colour | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=Patient |
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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