The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 3

He was a brave little fellow, but he had lost neither arms nor legs in battle.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: brave little fellow, arms, battle

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lost	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 fellow	conj
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 arms	cc:preconj
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lost	obj
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 legs	cc
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arms	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 battle	case
17	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	soldier	a brave little fellow					tree rules
2	lose	past · perfect	soldier	arms nor legs		battle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Eventuality

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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