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The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 337

‘It lies in work and in the love of an honest woman,’ replied the little soldier, who noticed for the first time what pretty eyes she had.

Who acts: happiness, little soldier, eyes · What happens: lie, reply, notice, have, love · To what, where: work, little soldier, first time, honest woman

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 (happiness, little soldier, eyes), 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

punctnsubjcaseoblcccasedetconjcasedetamodnmodpunctpunctparataxisdetamodobjpunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetamodoblobjadvmodnsubjnsubjacl:relclpunctroot‘PUNCTItPRONliesVERBinADPworkNOUNandCCONJinADPtheDETloveNOUNofADPanDEThonestADJwomanNOUN,PUNCT’PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETlittleADJsoldierNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONnoticedVERBforADPtheDETfirstADJtimeNOUNwhatPRONprettyADVeyesNOUNshePRONhadVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_3 liespunct
2ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 liesnsubj
3lieslieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ininADP_5 workcase
5workworkNOUNNumber=Sing3 liesobl
6andandCCONJ_9 lovecc
7ininADP_9 lovecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 lovedet
9loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing5 workconj
10ofofADP_13 womancase
11anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 womandet
12honesthonestADJDegree=Pos13 womanamod
13womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing9 lovenmod
14,,PUNCT_16 repliedpunct
15’'PUNCT_16 repliedpunct
16repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 liesparataxis
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 soldierdet
18littlelittleADJDegree=Pos19 soldieramod
19soldiersoldierNOUNNumber=Sing16 repliedobj
20,,PUNCT_22 noticedpunct
21whowhoPRONPronType=Rel22 noticednsubj
22noticednoticeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 soldieracl:relcl
23forforADP_26 timecase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 timedet
25firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord26 timeamod
26timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing22 noticedobl
27whatwhatPRONPronType=Int31 hadobj
28prettyprettyADV_29 eyesadvmod
29eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur31 hadnsubj
30sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 hadnsubj
31hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 timeacl:relcl
32..PUNCT_3 liespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1liepresenthappinesswork and the love of a honest womanvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in work=Location
2reply speech: assertpastthe little soldiervn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic
3noticepastthe little soldiertimevn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4havepasteyesthe first timevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
5lovea honest womannom love «feeling 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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