The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 86
‘I must have been bewitched,’ thought the little soldier.
What happens: bewitch, think · To what, where: I, little soldier
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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 bewitched | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bewitched | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bewitched | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bewitched | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 6 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thought | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bewitched | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soldier | amod |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewitch | must · perfect · passive | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the little soldier | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot soldier=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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