The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 52
‘I only want my shoes and stockings now,’ she said.
Who acts: I, Clic · What happens: want, say · To what, where: shoes · 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 (I, 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 | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 want | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stockings | cc |
| 8 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shoes | conj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 want | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | my shoes and stockings | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shoe=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Clic | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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