The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 101
The Soldier really could not refrain from kissing her--he was such a thorough Soldier.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: not refrain, kiss, be · To what, where: end, thorough Soldier
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 refrain | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 refrain | advmod |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 refrain | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 refrain | advmod |
| 6 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 8 kissing | mark |
| 8 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 refrain | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kissing | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Soldier | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Soldier | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Soldier | cop |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 Soldier | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Soldier | det |
| 15 | thorough | thorough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Soldier | amod |
| 16 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 refrain | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 refrain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refrain | could | the Soldier | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss | gerund | the Soldier not said here | end | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | soldier | such thorough Soldier | tree rules |
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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