The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 4

Still, the fighting was ended and the army disbanded, so he had to return to the village where he was born.

Who acts: fighting, army · What happens: be, disband, have, return, bear · To what, where: army

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 (fighting, army), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	6 ended	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fighting	det
4	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ended	cop
6	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 disbanded	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 army	det
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disbanded	nsubj
10	disbanded	disband	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ended	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ended	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 return	mark
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 village	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 village	det
19	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 born	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 born	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 born	aux:pass
23	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 village	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fighting		still	ended property	tree rules
2	disband	past	the army				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	army				tree rules
4	return	to-infinitive	army not said here			to the village result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result
5	bear	past · passive		army			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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