The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 89
Every now and then he stooped to smell the sweet perfume of the scarf round his arm; and gradually he smelt it so often that at last his head sank on to the horse’s neck, and he and his horse snored in company.
Who acts: soldier, last head · What happens: stoop, smell, smelt, sink, snore, perfume · To what, where: sweet perfume, perfume, soldier, company, scarf
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, last head), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 stooped | det |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stooped | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stooped | cc |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stooped | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stooped | nsubj |
| 6 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 smell | mark |
| 8 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stooped | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 perfume | det |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 perfume | amod |
| 11 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smell | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 scarf | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 scarf | det |
| 14 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perfume | nmod |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 arm | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scarf | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 smelt | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 smelt | cc |
| 20 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 22 smelt | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 smelt | nsubj |
| 22 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stooped | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 smelt | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 often | advmod |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 smelt | advmod |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 sank | mark |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 head | amod |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sank | nsubj |
| 31 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 smelt | advcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADV | _ | 31 sank | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 neck | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 horse | det |
| 35 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 neck | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 horse | case |
| 37 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sank | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 snored | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 snored | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 snored | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 horse | cc |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 horse | nmod:poss |
| 43 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 he | conj |
| 44 | snored | snore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 smelt | parataxis |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 company | case |
| 46 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 snored | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | soldier | now; then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smell | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | the sweet perfume of the scarf round soldier's arm | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer perfume=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | smelt | past | soldier | perfume | gradually, often property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sink | past | soldier's last head | to the horse's neck | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | snore | participle · passive | soldier | company | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | perfume | the scarf round soldier's arm | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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