English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 1

There was an old soldier who had been long in the wars--so long, that he was quite out-at-elbows, and he did not know where to go to find a living.

Who acts: old soldier, soldier · What happens: be, not know, go, find · To what, where: wars, elbows, living · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soldier	amod
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 long	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 long	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 long	cop
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soldier	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wars	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wars	det
12	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 long	obl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 was	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 out	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 out	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 out	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 out	cop
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 out	advmod
21	out	out	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 out	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 elbows	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 at	punct
25	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 out	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 know	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 know	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 know	advmod
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 go	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 know	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 find	mark
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 go	xcomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 living	det
38	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 find	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old soldier		there	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	a old soldier		the wars	long property	tree rules
3	is	past	soldier		elbows	out property	tree rules
4	not know	past · do-support	soldier				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	find	to-infinitive		a living			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Topic

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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