The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 90
Now the Soldier knew what a capital tinder-box this was.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: know · To what, where: capital tinder box
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 knew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Soldier | det |
| 3 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 10 box | det |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 box | det |
| 7 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 box | amod |
| 8 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 box | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tinder | punct |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obj |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 was | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 box | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Soldier | what capital tinder box | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus |
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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