The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 81
Once asleep, nothing was able to wake him; neither the brightness of the sun, nor the songs of the birds, nor the noise of Ludovine’s golden coach, nor the cries of the landlady who sought him in every place she could think of.
Who acts: nothing, landlady, Ludovine, birds, golden coach · What happens: be, wake, seek, think, sing, noise · To what, where: bird, place
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 (nothing, landlady, Ludovine, birds), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 asleep | advmod |
| 2 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nothing | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 asleep | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 able | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wake | mark |
| 8 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wake | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 brightness | punct |
| 11 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 brightness | cc:preconj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brightness | det |
| 13 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 able | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sun | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brightness | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 songs | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 songs | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 songs | det |
| 20 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 able | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 birds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 birds | det |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 songs | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 noise | punct |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 noise | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 noise | det |
| 27 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 songs | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 coach | case |
| 29 | Ludovine | Ludovine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 coach | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Ludovine | case |
| 31 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 coach | amod |
| 32 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 noise | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cries | punct |
| 34 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 36 cries | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cries | det |
| 36 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 songs | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 landlady | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 landlady | det |
| 39 | landlady | landlady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cries | nmod |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 sought | nsubj |
| 41 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 landlady | acl:relcl |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 sought | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 place | case |
| 44 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 place | det |
| 45 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sought | obl |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 think | nsubj |
| 47 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 think | aux |
| 48 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 sought | parataxis |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 think | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | nothing | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wake | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | bird | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | the landlady | bird | every place | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | could | Ludovine | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sing | the birds | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | noise | Ludovine's golden coach | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | cry | the landlady | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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