The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 87

Then he took the scarf, which had a strange kind of scent, and tied it round his left arm, thinking all the while that the best way to keep awake was not to go to bed at all.

Who acts: soldier, scarf, best way · What happens: take, have, tie, think, keep, not be · To what, where: scarf, strange kind, all · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (soldier, scarf, best way), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scarf	det
5	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scarf	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kind	det
10	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kind	amod
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 scent	case
13	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tied	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tied	cc
16	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tied	obj
18	round	round	ADP	_	21 arm	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 arm	nmod:poss
20	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 arm	amod
21	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tied	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thinking	punct
23	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tied	advcl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 while	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 while	det
26	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thinking	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 go	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 go	nsubj:outer
31	to	to	PART	_	32 keep	mark
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 way	acl
33	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 keep	xcomp
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 go	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 go	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 go	mark
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 thinking	ccomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 bed	case
39	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 go	obl
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 all	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 go	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	soldier	the scarf		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme
2	have	past	the scarf	a strange kind of scent				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
3	tie	past	soldier not said here	scarf			round soldier's left arm	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	think speech: other	gerund	soldier not said here			while		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	keep	to-infinitive	the best way not said here				awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not is	past	the best way		all		to bed; go 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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