The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 144
And the boys whistled and the soldiers presented arms.
Who acts: boys, soldiers · What happens: whistle, present · To what, where: arms
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 (boys, soldiers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 whistled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 whistled | nsubj |
| 4 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 presented | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soldiers | det |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 presented | nsubj |
| 8 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whistled | conj |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 presented | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past | the boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | present | past | the soldiers | arms | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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