The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 60
When she was quite dressed in her white silk stockings and little blue slippers dotted over with carbuncles, she said to her deliverer, ‘Now you must go away, and never come back here, whatever happens.
Who acts: Ludovine, you, whatever · What happens: dress, dot over, say, go away, not come back, happen · To what, where: Ludovine, white silk stockings, little blue slippers · 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 (Ludovine, you, whatever), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stockings | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stockings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stockings | amod |
| 9 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stockings | compound |
| 10 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dressed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slippers | cc |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slippers | amod |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slippers | amod |
| 14 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stockings | conj |
| 15 | dotted | dot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 slippers | acl |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 dotted | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 carbuncles | case |
| 18 | carbuncles | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dotted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 deliverer | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 27 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 go | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 go | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | aux |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 go | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 come | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 come | cc |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 come | advmod |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | conj |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 come | advmod |
| 37 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 come | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 happens | punct |
| 39 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 happens | nsubj |
| 40 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | Ludovine | Ludovine's white silk stockings and little blue slippers | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dot over | participle | little blue slippers not said here | with carbuncles; over property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with carbuncle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ludovine | to Ludovine's deliverer | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to deliverer=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go away | must | you | now | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | not come back | infinitive | you not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | happen | present | whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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