The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 40
‘Clic!’ once more the flames parted.
Who acts: Clic · What happens: part
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 (Clic), 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 Clic | punct |
| 2 | Clic | Clic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 parted | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Clic | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Clic | punct |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 parted | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 parted | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flames | det |
| 8 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 parted | nsubj |
| 9 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | Clic | once property | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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