The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 90
When the Princess arrived, they shook him, and beat him, and screamed at him, but it was all no good.
Who acts: Princess, arms, head · What happens: arrive, shake, beat, scream, be · To what, where: 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: who acts (Princess, arms, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shook | nsubj |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shook | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beat | cc |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shook | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beat | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 screamed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 screamed | cc |
| 15 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 screamed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 good | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 good | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 good | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 good | cop |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 good | advmod |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 good | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 screamed | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shake | past | arms = arm | soldier | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | beat | infinitive | arms = arm not said here | soldier | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | scream speech: express | past | at soldier | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | |||||
| 5 | is | past | head | all, good 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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