The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 59
After that he took the shoes and stockings out of the closet and brought them to Ludovine, who, directly she had put them on, became a woman all over.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: take, bring, put on, become · To what, where: shoes, closet, Ludovine, woman
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 took | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shoes | det |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stockings | cc |
| 8 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shoes | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 closet | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 closet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 closet | det |
| 12 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Ludovine | case |
| 17 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 put | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 21 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 24 put | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 put | aux |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Ludovine | acl:relcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 put | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 woman | det |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | xcomp |
| 31 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 over | advmod |
| 32 | over | over | ADV | _ | 28 became | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | soldier | the shoes and stockings | the closet | after that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme out closet=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | bring | past | soldier not said here | shoes = shoe | Ludovine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to ludovine=Destination | |||
| 3 | put on | past · perfect · passive | Ludovine | directly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset they=Goal | ||||
| 4 | become | past | soldier not said here | a woman | over property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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