The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 324

She was greatly pleased with this idea, when suddenly the pretended physician wrapped himself in the cloak, flung away the wig and spectacles, and showed to the traitress the face of the Little Soldier.

Who acts: Ludovine, pretended physician, cloak · What happens: be, pretend, wrap, fling away, show · To what, where: physician, cloak, wig, traitress

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, pretended physician, cloak), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 idea	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 idea	det
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrapped	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wrapped	advmod
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 physician	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 physician	det
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 physician	amod
13	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wrapped	nsubj
14	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 wrapped	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 cloak	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cloak	det
18	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wrapped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flung	punct
20	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 cloak	acl
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 flung	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wig	det
23	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flung	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spectacles	cc
25	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wig	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 showed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 showed	cc
28	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wrapped	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 traitress	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 traitress	det
31	traitress	traitress	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 showed	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 face	det
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 traitress	appos
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 Soldier	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Soldier	det
36	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Soldier	amod
37	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 face	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ludovine				with this idea; greatly, pleased property	tree rules
2	pretend	participle						tree rules
3	wrap	past	the pretended physician	physician		the cloak		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in cloak=Destination
4	fling away	participle	the cloak not said here	the wig and spectacles			away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	show	past	the pretended physician not said here		the traitress			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to traitress=Recipient

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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