The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 313
‘I have stolen a leather purse from a little soldier.’
Who acts: I · What happens: steal · To what, where: leather purse, little 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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stolen | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 purse | det |
| 6 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 purse | compound |
| 7 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 soldier | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 soldier | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soldier | amod |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present · perfect | I | a leather purse | a little soldier | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent purse=Theme from soldier=Source |
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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