The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 142
This frightened the soldiers, and all the people cried: ‘Good Soldier, you shall be our King, and marry the beautiful Princess!’
Who acts: This, people, you · What happens: frighten, cry, be, marry · To what, where: soldiers, Good Soldier, King, beautiful Princess
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 (This, people, you), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 frightened | nsubj |
| 2 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldiers | det |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 frightened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 frightened | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Soldier | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Soldier | punct |
| 13 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Soldier | amod |
| 14 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 King | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 King | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 King | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 King | cop |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 King | nmod:poss |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Soldier | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 marry | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 marry | cc |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 frightened | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Princess | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Princess | amod |
| 26 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 marry | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 marry | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past | This | the soldiers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soldier=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | all people | Good Soldier | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | shall | you | our King | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | infinitive | the beautiful Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
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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