The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 54
The little soldier departed, and found himself in the presence of eight goblins armed with hammers, and flames darting from their eyes.
Who acts: little soldier, flames · What happens: depart, find, dart · To what, where: little soldier, soldier, presence, eyes
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 (little soldier, flames), 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 | 3 soldier | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | nsubj |
| 4 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 soldier | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 presence | det |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 goblins | case |
| 13 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 goblins | nummod |
| 14 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 presence | nmod |
| 15 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 goblins | amod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 hammers | case |
| 17 | hammers | hammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 armed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flames | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flames | cc |
| 20 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obl |
| 21 | darting | dart | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 flames | acl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 darting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | participle | the little soldier not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the little soldier | soldier | the presence of eight goblins | flames obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 3 | dart | gerund | flames not said here | flames's eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory |
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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