The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 5
Before the door stood two wooden soldiers, who were shouldering arms.
Who acts: two wooden soldiers · What happens: stand, shoulder · To what, where: two wooden soldiers, door, arms
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two wooden soldiers), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 soldiers | nummod |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 soldiers | amod |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shouldering | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 shouldering | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shouldering | aux |
| 11 | shouldering | shoulder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 soldiers | acl |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shouldering | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | two wooden soldiers | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme before door=Destination | ||||
| 2 | shoulder | past · progressive | two wooden soldiers | arms | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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