The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 319
Did you steal nothing from this soldier but his purse?’
Who acts: you · What happens: steal · To what, where: nothing, 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 (you), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 steal | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 steal | nsubj |
| 3 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 steal | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 soldier | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 soldier | det |
| 7 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 purse | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 purse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 steal | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 steal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · do-support | you | nothing | this soldier | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=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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