The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 259

‘Perhaps,’ thought he, ‘these pretty little plums may help me to recover my purse, my cloak, and my heart from the hands of this wicked Princess.

Who acts: little plums, me · What happens: think, help, recover · To what, where: soldier, me, purse · 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 (little plums, me), 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	_	5 thought	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 thought	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Perhaps	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Perhaps	punct
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 plums	det
10	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	11 little	advmod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plums	amod
12	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 help	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 help	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 recover	mark
17	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 help	xcomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 purse	nmod:poss
19	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 recover	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cloak	punct
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cloak	nmod:poss
22	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 purse	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heart	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heart	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heart	nmod:poss
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 hands	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hands	det
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 heart	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Princess	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 Princess	det
32	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Princess	amod
33	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hands	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		soldier	my heart from the hands of this wicked Princess obl; perhaps property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	help	may	this little plums	me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	recover	to-infinitive	me not said here	my purse and my cloak		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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