The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 68

When he arrived at the inn he ordered supper, but no sooner had he sat down to eat it than he felt that he was going sound asleep.

Who acts: John · What happens: arrive, order, have, sit down, eat, feel · To what, where: inn, supper

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 inn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inn	det
6	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ordered	nsubj
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 inn	acl:relcl
9	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 sooner	det
13	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 had	advmod
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrived	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	ccomp
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sat	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eat	obj
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 felt	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 felt	nsubj
23	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 going	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 felt	advcl
28	sound	sound	ADV	_	29 asleep	advmod
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 going	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	John		the inn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	order	past	John	supper			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Theme
3	have	past	John not said here			soon property	tree rules
4	sit down	past	John				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	to-infinitive	John not said here	supper			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	feel	past	John				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	go	past · progressive	John			asleep property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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