The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 36
And, turn his eyes which way he would, he could discover no bodies belonging to them.
Who acts: you, soldier, bodies · What happens: turn, discover, belong · To what, where: eyes, bodies
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 (you, soldier, bodies), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turn | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turn | obj |
| 6 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 would | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 discover | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 discover | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 discover | aux |
| 13 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turn | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 bodies | det |
| 15 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 discover | obj |
| 16 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 bodies | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 belonging | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | soldier's eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent eye=Theme way=Result | ||||
| 2 | discover | could | soldier | no bodies | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic | ||||
| 3 | belong | gerund | no bodies not said here | eyes = eye | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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