The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 315
The remedy will not act till I hold the purse in my hands.’
Who acts: remedy, I · What happens: not act, hold · To what, where: purse, hands
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 (remedy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 remedy | det |
| 2 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 act | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 act | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 act | advmod |
| 5 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 hold | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hold | nsubj |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 act | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 purse | det |
| 10 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hold | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 act | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not act | future | the remedy | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | present | I | the purse | my hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent purse=Theme in hand=Location |
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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