The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 265
But he feared nothing, except that his plums should decay, and this never happened.
Who acts: mischief, plums, this · What happens: fear, decay, not happen · To what, where: nothing
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 (mischief, plums, this), 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 | _ | 3 feared | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feared | nsubj |
| 3 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 feared | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decay | punct |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 11 decay | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 decay | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 plums | nmod:poss |
| 9 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 decay | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 decay | aux |
| 11 | decay | decay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feared | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happened | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happened | cc |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 happened | advmod |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feared | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | mischief | nothing | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | decay | should | mischief's plums | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not happen | past | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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