The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 93
But the coach drove on as before, and though the little soldier rode after it for a day and a night, he never got one step nearer.
Who acts: coach, little soldier, soldier · What happens: drive, ride, not get
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 (coach, little soldier, soldier), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 drove | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coach | det |
| 3 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 drove | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 before | case |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 drove | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rode | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rode | cc |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 rode | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soldier | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 soldier | amod |
| 13 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | nsubj |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drove | parataxis |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rode | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 night | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 got | advmod |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rode | conj |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 step | nummod |
| 28 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 nearer | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 got | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the coach | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride | past | the little soldier | after coach; day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not get | past | soldier | near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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