The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 289

‘Horns! so that was what he promised me!

Who acts: that, John · What happens: be, promise · To what, where: me

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 (that, John), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:1820): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Horns	punct
2	Horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Horns	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 what	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	cop
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Horns	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 promised	nsubj
9	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 promised	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that						tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past	John		me				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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