The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 266

At last he came to a civilised country, and with the sale of some jewels that he had about him on the evening of his flight he took passage on board a vessel for the Low Countries.

Who acts: mischief · What happens: come, civilise, have, take · To what, where: last, passage, vessel

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 country	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 country	det
7	civilised	civilise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sale	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sale	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 sale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sale	det
13	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 jewels	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 jewels	det
16	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sale	nmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	advcl
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 evening	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 evening	det
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 flight	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 flight	nmod:poss
27	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 evening	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flight	acl:relcl
30	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 vessel	case
32	board	board	ADP	_	34 vessel	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 vessel	det
34	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 Countries	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Countries	det
37	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Countries	amod
38	Countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 took	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	mischief		last		to a civilised country; with the sale of some jewels	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
2	civilise	participle						tree rules
3	have	past	mischief			evening	about soldier	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	mischief	passage	a vessel		for the Low Countries	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent passage=Theme on vessel=Destination

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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