The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 71

At eight o’clock they came to wake him, and at half-past, and a quarter of an hour later, but it was no use; and at last they decided to leave him in peace.

Who acts: men, o’clock · What happens: come, wake, be, decide, leave · To what, where: quarter, eight o’clock, John, use, last, peace

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 (men, o’clock), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 o’clock	case
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 o’clock	nummod
3	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wake	mark
7	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wake	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 past	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 past	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 past	case
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 past	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 half	punct
14	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 quarter	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 quarter	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 quarter	det
18	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 hour	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hour	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 quarter	nmod
22	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 hour	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 use	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 use	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 use	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 use	cop
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 use	det
28	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 decided	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 decided	cc
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 last	case
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 decided	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 decided	nsubj
34	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 leave	mark
36	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 decided	xcomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 leave	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 peace	case
39	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 leave	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	men = man	a quarter of a hour	eight o’clock	at half past	tree rules
2	wake	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	John			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is a	past	o’clock = o'clock	no use			tree rules
4	decide	past	men = man		last		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	John	peace		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in peace=Location

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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