The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 278
Such a neatly turned compliment flattered Ludovine.
Who acts: turned compliment · What happens: flatter · To what, where: Ludovine
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 (turned compliment), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 compliment | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 compliment | det |
| 3 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 compliment | amod |
| 5 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flattered | nsubj |
| 6 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flattered | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatter | past | such turned compliment | Ludovine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ludovine=Experiencer |
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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