The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 269

The next day he put on a false beard and the dress of a date merchant, and, taking a little table, he placed himself before the door of the church.

Who acts: mischief · What happens: put, take, place · To what, where: false beard, little table, mischief, door

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 beard	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beard	det
8	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beard	amod
9	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dress	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dress	det
12	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beard	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 merchant	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
15	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 merchant	compound
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dress	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 taking	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 put	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 table	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 table	amod
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 placed	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 placed	nsubj
26	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 placed	obj
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 door	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 placed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 church	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 church	det
33	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 door	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put	past	mischief		a false beard and the dress of a date merchant	day	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on beard=Destination
2	take	gerund	mischief not said here	a little table			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme
3	place	past	mischief	mischief	the door of the church		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme before door=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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