The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 88

So he paid his bill, and bought a horse with the money that remained, and when the evening came he mounted his horse and stood in front of the inn door, determined to stay there all night.

Who acts: soldier, money, evening · What happens: pay, buy, remain, come, mount, stand · To what, where: bill, horse, front

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, money, evening), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 paid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	nsubj
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bill	nmod:poss
5	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bought	cc
8	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bought	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 money	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 money	det
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bought	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 remained	nsubj
15	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 money	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mounted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mounted	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 evening	det
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 mounted	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 mounted	nsubj
23	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 horse	nmod:poss
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mounted	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stood	cc
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 mounted	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 front	case
29	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
32	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 door	compound
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 front	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 determined	punct
35	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 stood	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 stay	mark
37	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 determined	xcomp
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 stay	advmod
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 night	det
40	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stay	obl:unmarked
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	soldier	soldier's bill				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset
2	buy	past	soldier not said here	a horse			with the money	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	remain	past	the money					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the evening					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mount	past	soldier	soldier's horse				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
6	stand	past	soldier not said here		front of the inn door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
7	determine	participle	soldier not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	stay	to-infinitive	soldier not said here		there	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	bill		soldier					nom bill «communication transitive»: 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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