The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 1
A soldier came marching along the high road--left, right!
Who acts: soldier · What happens: come, march, leave · To what, where: high road
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 road | amod |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marching | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 road | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 marching | discourse |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a soldier | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | march | gerund | a soldier not said here | the high road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | the high road not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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