The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 257
The little soldier was enchanted, though greatly surprised, and came to the conclusion that it was no good to despair too quickly.
Who acts: it · What happens: enchant, come, be, despair · To what, where: little soldier, conclusion
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 (it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 surprised | punct |
| 7 | though | though | ADV | _ | 9 surprised | advmod |
| 8 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 9 surprised | advmod |
| 9 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 enchanted | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 conclusion | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 conclusion | det |
| 15 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 good | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 good | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 good | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 despair | mark |
| 22 | despair | despair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 good | csubj |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 quickly | advmod |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 22 despair | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | the little soldier | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the conclusion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | is | past | it | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | despair | to-infinitive | quickly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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