The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 98
However, he soon plucked up his spirits again, and walked along the beach to try and find a boat in which he could sail after the Princess.
Who acts: horse · What happens: pluck up, walk, try, find, sail · To what, where: spirits, beach, boat
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 (horse), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 plucked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 plucked | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 plucked | advmod |
| 5 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 plucked | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plucked | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 plucked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plucked | conj |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 beach | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beach | det |
| 15 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 try | mark |
| 17 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 walked | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 try | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 boat | det |
| 21 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 sail | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sail | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 sail | aux |
| 26 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 boat | parataxis |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 Princess | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Princess | det |
| 29 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sail | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck up | past | horse | horse's spirits | again | however, soon property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient | ||
| 2 | walk | past | horse not said here | the beach | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along beach=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | horse not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | horse not said here | a boat | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Topic | ||||
| 5 | sail | could | horse | a boat | after the Princess | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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