The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 56

‘My sword is no use,’ he thought to himself; ‘these wretches will break it like glass, and if I can’t think of anything else, I am a dead man.’

Who acts: sword, soldier, wretches, I · What happens: be, think, break, not think · To what, where: use, soldier, sword, dead man · 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 (sword, soldier, wretches, I), 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	_	6 use	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sword	nmod:poss
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 thought	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 break	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 break	punct
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 wretches	det
16	wretches	wretch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 break	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 break	aux
18	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 break	obj
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 glass	case
21	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 break	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 think	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 think	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 think	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 think	nsubj
26	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 think	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 think	advmod
28	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 break	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 anything	case
30	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 think	obl
31	else	else	ADV	_	30 anything	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 think	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 man	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 man	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 think	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 break	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	My sword	no use			tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	soldier		soldier		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	break	future	this wretches	sword		like glass	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
4	not think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	can	I			of anything	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	I	a dead man			tree rules

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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