The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 127

Just below his window was a shoemaker’s apprentice, with leather apron and shoes; he was skipping along so merrily that one of his shoes flew off and fell against the wall, just where the Soldier was sitting peeping through the iron grating.

Who acts: window, soldier, one · What happens: be, skip, fly off, fall, sit, peep · To what, where: apprentice, wall

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 (window, soldier, one), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 window	advmod
2	below	below	ADP	_	4 window	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 window	nmod:poss
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 apprentice	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 apprentice	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shoemaker	det
7	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 apprentice	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 shoemaker	case
9	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 apron	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 apron	case
12	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 apron	compound
13	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 apprentice	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shoes	cc
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 apron	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 skipping	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 skipping	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 skipping	aux
19	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 apprentice	appos
20	along	along	ADV	_	19 skipping	advmod
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 merrily	advmod
22	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	19 skipping	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 flew	mark
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 flew	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 shoes	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoes	nmod:poss
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 skipping	advcl
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 flew	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fell	cc
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flew	conj
32	against	against	ADP	_	34 wall	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wall	det
34	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fell	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sitting	punct
36	just	just	ADV	_	41 sitting	advmod
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 sitting	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Soldier	det
39	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 sitting	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sitting	aux
41	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 skipping	conj
42	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 sitting	advcl
43	through	through	ADP	_	46 grating	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 grating	det
45	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 grating	compound
46	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 peeping	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 apprentice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	soldier's window	a shoemaker's apprentice			tree rules
2	skip	past · progressive	soldier			along, merrily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly off	past	one of soldier's shoes				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	one of soldier's shoes not said here		the wall		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against wall=Location
5	sit	past · progressive	the Soldier				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	peep	gerund	the Soldier not said here			through the iron grating	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through grating=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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