The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 95

Here John thought that at last the coach must stop, but, wonder of wonders! it went straight on, and rolled over the water as easily as it had done over the land.

Who acts: John, coach, wonder · What happens: think, stop, go, roll, do, wonder · To what, where: that, last, water, coach, land, wonders · 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 (John, coach, wonder), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 thought	advmod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thought	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stop	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coach	det
8	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stop	aux
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wonder	punct
14	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 wonders	case
16	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wonder	nmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 wonder	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
20	straight	straight	ADV	_	21 on	advmod
21	on	on	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rolled	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rolled	cc
24	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thought	parataxis
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rolled	obl
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 easily	advmod
29	easily	easily	ADV	_	24 rolled	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 done	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 done	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 done	aux
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 rolled	advcl
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 land	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 land	det
36	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 done	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	John	that	here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme
2	stop	must	the coach		last		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	go	past	wonder of wonders				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	roll	participle			the water	easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory
5	do	past · perfect · passive		coach	the land		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	wonder			wonders			nom wonder «feeling 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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