The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 66
John drank, then lit his pipe and went out.
Who acts: John · What happens: drink, light, go out · To what, where: 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lit | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lit | advmod |
| 5 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lit | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lit | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 went | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | John | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | light | past | John not said here | John's pipe | then | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product | |||
| 3 | go out | past | John not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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