The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 285

His plums all sold, he shut up shop, took off his disguise, changed his inn, and kept quiet, waiting to see what would happen.

Who acts: plums, soldier · What happens: sell, shut up, take off, change, keep, wait · To what, where: shop, disguise, inn · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (plums, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 plums	nmod:poss
2	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 sold	advmod
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shut	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shut	nsubj
7	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 shut	compound:prt
9	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 took	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 disguise	nmod:poss
14	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 changed	punct
16	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 inn	nmod:poss
18	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kept	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 kept	cc
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
22	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kept	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 waiting	punct
24	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 kept	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 waiting	advcl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 happen	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 happen	aux
29	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 see	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sell	past	soldier's plums		all property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	shut up	past	soldier	shop		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient
3	take off	past	soldier's plums not said here	soldier's disguise		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme
4	change	past	soldier's plums not said here	soldier's inn		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inn=Patient
5	keep	past	soldier's plums not said here		quiet property	tree rules
6	wait	gerund	soldier's plums not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	to-infinitive	soldier's plums not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «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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