The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 301

When the little soldier discovered that their patience was worn out, he pressed the juice of the green Queen Claude plums into a small phial, bought a doctor’s robe, put on a wig and spectacles, and presented himself before the King of the Low Countries.

Who acts: little soldier, soldier, juice · What happens: discover, wear out, press, plum, buy, put · To what, where: patience, small phial, robe, wig, 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 (little soldier, soldier, juice), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 discovered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soldier	amod
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discovered	nsubj
5	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pressed	advcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 worn	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 patience	nmod:poss
8	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worn	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 worn	aux:pass
10	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 discovered	ccomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 worn	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 discovered	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pressed	nsubj
14	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 juice	det
16	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plums	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 Claude	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Claude	det
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Claude	amod
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Claude	nmod:desc
21	Claude	Claude	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 juice	nmod
22	plums	plum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pressed	parataxis
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 phial	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 phial	det
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 phial	amod
26	phial	phial	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plums	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bought	punct
28	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pressed	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 doctor	det
30	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 robe	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 doctor	case
32	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bought	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 bought	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 wig	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wig	det
37	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 spectacles	cc
39	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 wig	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 presented	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 presented	cc
42	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pressed	conj
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 presented	obj
44	before	before	ADP	_	46 King	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 King	det
46	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 presented	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 Countries	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Countries	det
49	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Countries	amod
50	Countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 King	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	discover	past	the little soldier				vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wear out	past · passive		orchards's patience			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	press	past	soldier				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	plum	present	the juice of the green Claude Queen		a small phial		tree rules
5	buy	past	soldier not said here	a doctor's robe			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme
6	put	participle	soldier not said here		a wig and spectacles		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on wig=Destination
7	present	past	soldier not said here	soldier		before the King of the Low Countries	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «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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