The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 78
When the night came, he slept with one eye open, and jumped up twenty times an hour.
Who acts: night, soldier · What happens: come, sleep, jump up
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 (night, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slept | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slept | nsubj |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eye | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eye | nummod |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slept | obl |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slept | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 jumped | cc |
| 14 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slept | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 jumped | compound:prt |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 times | nummod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 jumped | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hour | det |
| 19 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | past | soldier | with one eye; open property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | jump up | past | soldier not said here | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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