The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 35

He crossed the gallery in safety, but when he reached the room he saw by the light of the stars eight hands on a level with his face, which threatened to strike him.

Who acts: soldier, face · What happens: cross, reach, see, threaten, strike, light · To what, where: gallery, room, level, soldier, stars

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 (soldier, face), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crossed	nsubj
2	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gallery	det
4	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 safety	case
6	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 reached	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crossed	parataxis
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 light	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 stars	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stars	det
21	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 light	nmod
22	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 hands	nummod
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stars	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 level	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 level	det
26	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 face	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 face	nmod:poss
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 level	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 threatened	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 threatened	nsubj
32	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 face	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 strike	mark
34	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 threatened	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 strike	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past	soldier	the gallery		in safety	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent gallery=Patient in safety=Topic
2	reach	past	soldier	the room			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme
3	see	past	soldier		a level with soldier's face	by the light of the stars and eight hands	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	threaten	past	soldier's face				tree rules
5	strike not said to happen	to-infinitive	soldier's face not said here	soldier			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
6	light			the stars and eight hands			nom light «phenomenon 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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