The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 326
‘I might,’ said John, ‘have left you horned to the end of your days, but I am a good fellow and I once loved you, and besides--you are too like the devil to have any need of his horns.’
Who acts: John, you, I · What happens: say, leave, horn, be, love, have · To what, where: besides, good fellow, you, need, 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 (John, you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 might | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 might | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 might | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 horned | nsubj |
| 13 | horned | horn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horned | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 days | nmod:poss |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 end | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fellow | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 fellow | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 fellow | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fellow | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fellow | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fellow | amod |
| 26 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 loved | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 loved | nsubj |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 loved | advmod |
| 30 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 loved | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 besides | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 besides | cc |
| 34 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 devil | punct |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 devil | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 devil | cop |
| 38 | too | too | ADV | _ | 41 devil | advmod |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 devil | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 devil | det |
| 41 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 besides | nmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 have | mark |
| 43 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 devil | acl |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 need | det |
| 45 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 have | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 horns | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 horns | nmod:poss |
| 48 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 need | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | John | besides | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | John not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | horn | past | you | to the end of your days | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | a good fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | love | past | I | you | once property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is | present | you | like the devil | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | John not said here | any need of John's horns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 8 | need | John's horns | nom need «state transitive»: of=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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