The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 39
‘Here it is,’ he panted, rather out of breath.
Who acts: tunic, soldier · What happens: be, pant · To what, where: breath
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 (tunic, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 panted | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 8 panted | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 panted | nsubj |
| 8 | panted | pant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 breath | punct |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 breath | advmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 breath | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 breath | case |
| 13 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 panted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tunic | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pant | past | soldier | breath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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