The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 5

Now the soldier’s name was really John, but for some reason or other his friends always called him the Kinglet; why, no one ever knew, but so it was.

Who acts: name, friends, John, soldier · What happens: be, call, know, name · To what, where: John · 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 (name, friends, John, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 knew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 soldier	case
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 John	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 John	cop
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 John	advmod
8	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 knew	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reason	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 reason	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 reason	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 reason	det
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 John	appos
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 other	cc
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 reason	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friends	nmod:poss
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 called	nsubj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 called	advmod
19	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reason	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Kinglet	det
22	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 why	punct
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 John	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knew	punct
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knew	nsubj
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 knew	advmod
29	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 was	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 was	cc
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 was	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 was	nsubj
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 knew	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the soldier's name	John				tree rules
2	call	past	soldier's friends		John		always property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	know	past	John			now; ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	be	past	name					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	name		the soldier					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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