The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 38
When he got to the closet, he opened it, took down the tunic, and brought it to the first room.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: get, open, take down, bring · To what, where: closet, tunic, first room
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 opened | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 closet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 closet | det |
| 6 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 opened | nsubj |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 opened | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 opened | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tunic | det |
| 15 | tunic | tunic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 room | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 room | amod |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | soldier | to the closet result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to closet=Result | ||||
| 2 | open | past | soldier | closet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take down | past | soldier not said here | the tunic | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tunic=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | soldier not said here | tunic | the first room | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to room=Destination |
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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