The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 270

He spread carefully out on a fine white cloth his Mirabelle plums, which looked for all the world as if they had been freshly gathered, and when he saw the Princess coming out of church he began to call out in a feigned voice: ‘Fine plums! lovely plums!’

Who acts: mischief, Mirabelle plums, Princess · What happens: spread, look, gather, see, come out, begin · To what, where: fine white cloth, beard, Princess, church, feigned voice

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, Mirabelle plums, Princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 out	advmod
4	out	out	ADV	_	2 spread	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 cloth	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cloth	det
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cloth	amod
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cloth	amod
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 plums	nmod:poss
11	Mirabelle	Mirabelle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 plums	compound
12	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cloth	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 plums	acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 world	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 world	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 gathered	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 gathered	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gathered	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gathered	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 gathered	aux:pass
25	freshly	freshly	ADV	_	26 gathered	advmod
26	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 looked	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saw	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 saw	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spread	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Princess	det
33	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obj
34	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 saw	xcomp
35	out	out	ADP	_	37 church	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 church	case
37	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 coming	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 began	nsubj
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 church	acl:relcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 call	mark
41	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 call	compound:prt
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 voice	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 voice	det
45	feigned	feign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 voice	amod
46	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 call	obl
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 plums	punct
48	‘	'	PUNCT	_	50 plums	punct
49	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 plums	amod
50	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	parataxis
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	50 plums	punct
52	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 plums	amod
53	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 plums	conj
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	50 plums	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	past	mischief		a fine white cloth mischief's Mirabelle plums	out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cloth=Location
2	look	past	mischief's Mirabelle plums			for all world	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for world=Theme
3	gather	past · perfect · passive		beard		freshly property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	see	past	mischief	the Princess			tree rules
5	come out	gerund	the Princess not said here	church			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient church=Result
6	begin	past	mischief	church not said here			tree rules
7	call out speech: assert	to-infinitive	mischief not said here		a feigned voice		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	feign	participle					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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