The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 334

Then John told her all his adventures, and when he had finished, he restored to her the purse and the mantle.

Who acts: John · What happens: tell, finish, restore, adventure · To what, where: adventures, Seagull, purse · 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 adventures	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 adventures	nmod:poss
7	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 finished	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 finished	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 finished	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finished	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 finished	aux
13	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 restored	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 restored	nsubj
16	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 restored	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 purse	det
20	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 restored	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mantle	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mantle	det
23	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 purse	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	John	John's adventures	Seagull	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient adventure=Topic
2	finish	past · perfect	John				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	restore	past	John	the purse and the mantle	Seagull		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent purse=Theme to she=Recipient
4	adventure		John				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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