The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 47

The Kinglet did as he was told, but in entering the room he saw, instead of merely hands, eight arms, each holding an enormous stick.

Who acts: Kinglet, each · What happens: tell, enter, see, hold · To what, where: Kinglet, room, hands, enormous stick · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kinglet, each), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Kinglet	det
2	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 entering	mark
11	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 saw	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entering	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hands	punct
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 hands	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	merely	merely	ADV	_	20 hands	advmod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 arms	punct
22	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 arms	nummod
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hands	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 holding	punct
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 holding	nsubj
26	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 saw	advcl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 stick	det
28	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stick	amod
29	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 holding	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive · do-support		the Kinglet	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	enter	gerund	Kinglet not said here	the room	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
3	see	past	Kinglet	hands and eight arms	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
4	hold	gerund	each	a enormous stick	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=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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