The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 76
The little soldier cursed his sleep, but tried to console himself by looking at his bouquet, which was of immortelles.
Who acts: little soldier, bouquet, soldier · What happens: curse, try, look, be, sleep · To what, where: sleep, console
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 (little soldier, bouquet, soldier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 soldier | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 console | mark |
| 11 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tried | obj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 console | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 looking | mark |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tried | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 bouquet | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bouquet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bouquet | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 immortelles | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 immortelles | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 immortelles | cop |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 immortelles | case |
| 22 | immortelles | immortelle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bouquet | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | the little soldier not said here | soldier's sleep | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the little soldier | console soldier | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the little soldier not said here | at soldier's bouquet and immortelles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bouquet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | soldier's bouquet and immortelles | of immortelles | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sleep | soldier | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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