The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 6

As he had no father or mother to welcome him home, he did not hurry himself, but went quietly along, his knapsack on his back and his sword by his side, when suddenly one evening he was seized with a wish to light his pipe.

Who acts: John · What happens: have, welcome, not hurry, go, seize, light · To what, where: father, John, one evening, pipe

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 (John), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 went	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 mother	cc
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 welcome	mark
9	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 welcome	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 welcome	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hurry	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hurry	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hurry	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hurry	advmod
16	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 welcome	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 hurry	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	along	along	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knapsack	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 knapsack	nmod:poss
25	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	parataxis
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 back	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 back	nmod:poss
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knapsack	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sword	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sword	nmod:poss
31	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 back	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 side	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 side	nmod:poss
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knapsack	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 seized	punct
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 seized	advmod
37	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	39 evening	advmod
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 evening	nummod
39	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 seized	nsubj:pass
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 seized	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 seized	aux:pass
42	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 knapsack	parataxis
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 wish	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 wish	det
45	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 seized	obl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 light	mark
47	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 seized	advcl
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 pipe	nmod:poss
49	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 light	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	John	no father or mother		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
2	welcome	to-infinitive	John not said here	John	home property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not hurry	past · do-support	John	John		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Agent
4	go	past			along, quietly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seize	past · passive		one evening	with a wish	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	light	to-infinitive		John's pipe		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product

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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