The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 305

As soon as the little soldier was in the presence of the Princess he poured some drops of the liquid into a glass.

Who acts: King · What happens: be, pour · To what, where: presence, drops, glass

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 (King), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 presence	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 soldier	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soldier	amod
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 presence	obl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 presence	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 presence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 presence	det
10	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Princess	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 presence	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 poured	nsubj
15	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Princess	acl:relcl
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 drops	det
17	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 poured	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 liquid	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 liquid	det
20	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drops	nmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 glass	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 glass	det
23	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poured	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 presence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the presence		as the little soldier; of the Princess; soon property	tree rules
2	pour	past	King	some drops of the liquid		a glass			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme into glass=Destination

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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