The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 317

With a sigh, she handed the purse to the doctor, who poured more of the liquid into the glass, and when the Princess had drunk it, she found that the horns had diminished by one half.

Who acts: Ludovine, one half · What happens: hand, pour, drink, find, diminish · To what, where: purse, doctor, more, glass, Princess, horns · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ludovine, one half), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 sigh	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sigh	det
3	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sigh	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 handed	nsubj
6	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 purse	det
8	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handed	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 doctor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctor	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poured	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 poured	nsubj
14	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 handed	conj
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 poured	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 liquid	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 liquid	det
18	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 more	obl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 glass	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 glass	det
21	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 poured	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drunk	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drunk	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 drunk	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 drunk	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 drunk	aux
28	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 handed	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 drunk	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 handed	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 diminished	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 horns	det
35	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 diminished	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 diminished	aux
37	diminished	diminish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 found	ccomp
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 half	case
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 half	nummod
40	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	37 diminished	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hand	past	Ludovine	the purse	the doctor	with a sigh	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent purse=Theme to doctor=Destination
2	pour	past		more	the glass		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent more=Theme into glass=Destination
3	drink	past · perfect · passive		the Princess			tree rules
4	find	past	Ludovine				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	diminish	past · perfect · passive	one half	the horns			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer subject=Patient

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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