The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 3
He had his knapsack on his back and a sword by his side, for he had been to the wars and was now returning home.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: have, be, return · To what, where: knapsack, back
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 4 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sword | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 back | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wars | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 wars | case |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wars | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wars | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 wars | cop |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 wars | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wars | det |
| 21 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 returning | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 returning | aux |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 returning | advmod |
| 25 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 returning | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soldier | soldier's knapsack | soldier's back and a sword | by soldier's side | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | soldier | for the wars | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | past · progressive | soldier not said here | now | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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