The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 267
So, at the end of a year and a day, he arrived at the capital of the kingdom.
Who acts: mischief · What happens: arrive · To what, where: end
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 day | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 end | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 capital | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 capital | det |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kingdom | det |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 capital | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | mischief | at the end of a year and a day | at the capital of the kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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