The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 73
He sprang out of bed, and, scarcely waiting to dress himself, hastened to ask if anyone had been to inquire for him.
Who acts: John, anyone · What happens: spring out, wait, dress, hasten, ask, be · To what, where: bed, John
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, anyone), 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 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sprang | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 waiting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 waiting | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 10 waiting | advmod |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sprang | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dress | mark |
| 12 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 waiting | xcomp |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 dress | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hastened | punct |
| 15 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sprang | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 ask | mark |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hastened | advcl |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 inquire | mark |
| 19 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 inquire | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 inquire | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 inquire | cop |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 inquire | mark |
| 23 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ask | ccomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 inquire | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring out | past | John | bed | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | John not said here | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dress | to-infinitive | John not said here | John | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hasten | participle | John not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | John not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | anyone | for John; inquire property | tree rules |
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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