The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 143
Then they put the Soldier into the King’s coach, and the three dogs danced in front, crying ‘Hurrah!’
Who acts: people · What happens: put, dance, cry · To what, where: Soldier, coach, three dogs, front, Hurrah
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 (people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Soldier | det |
| 5 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 coach | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coach | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 danced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 danced | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dogs | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 dogs | nummod |
| 15 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 danced | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 danced | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crying | punct |
| 20 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 danced | advcl |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hurrah | punct |
| 22 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 crying | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hurrah | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | people | the Soldier | the King's coach | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent soldier=Goal | ||
| 2 | dance | participle · passive | the three dogs | front | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | Hurrah | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic |
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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