The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 7
He felt for his match-box to strike a light, but to his great disgust he found he had lost it.
Who acts: John · What happens: feel, strike, find, lose, disgust · To what, where: light · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 box | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 box | nmod:poss |
| 5 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 box | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 match | punct |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 strike | mark |
| 9 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strike | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 disgust | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 disgust | nmod:poss |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 disgust | amod |
| 17 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lost | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 found | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lost | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | John | for John's match box | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | to-infinitive | John not said here | a light | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | past | John | to John's great disgust | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | John | light | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | disgust | John | nom disgust «feeling transitive»: poss=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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