The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 323
This time Ludovine thought to herself that when once the horns had departed, she would call her attendants and take the things from the doctor by force.
Who acts: Ludovine · What happens: think, depart, call, take · To what, where: Ludovine, horns, attendants, things, doctor · 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), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 thought | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 departed | mark |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 departed | advmod |
| 9 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 13 departed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horns | det |
| 11 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 departed | aux |
| 13 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 call | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 departed | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 call | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 call | aux |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 19 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 call | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 call | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 things | det |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 doctor | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 doctor | det |
| 26 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 force | case |
| 28 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Ludovine | Ludovine | time | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | depart | past · perfect · passive | the horns | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | call | would | Ludovine | Ludovine's attendants | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | Ludovine not said here | the things | the doctor | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from doctor=Initial_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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