The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 284

The little soldier was seized with a wild desire to snatch the purse from her and proclaim her a thief, but he managed to control himself.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: seize, snatch, proclaim, manage, control · To what, where: little soldier, purse, curiosity, soldier

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 (soldier), 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 soldier	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soldier	amod
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	aux:pass
5	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 desire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 desire	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 desire	amod
9	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 snatch	mark
11	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seized	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 purse	det
13	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snatch	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 snatch	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 proclaim	cc
17	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 snatch	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 proclaim	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thief	det
20	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 proclaim	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 managed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 managed	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 managed	nsubj
24	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 control	mark
26	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 managed	xcomp
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 control	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past · passive		the little soldier	with a wild desire	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	snatch	to-infinitive		the purse	from curiosity	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent purse=Theme from she=Source
3	proclaim	infinitive		curiosity		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme thief=Attribute
4	manage	past	soldier			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	control	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	soldier		vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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